Pseudospectrum and time-domain analysis of the EFT corrected black holes

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Main Authors: Cao, Li-Ming, Ji, Ming-Fei, Wu, Liang-Bi, Zhou, Yu-Sen
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Published: 2025
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author Cao, Li-Ming
Ji, Ming-Fei
Wu, Liang-Bi
Zhou, Yu-Sen
author_facet Cao, Li-Ming
Ji, Ming-Fei
Wu, Liang-Bi
Zhou, Yu-Sen
contents We study the linear perturbations of a spherically symmetric black hole corrected by dimension-6 terms in the effective field theory (EFT) of gravity. The solution is asymptotically flat and characterized by two parameters -- a mass parameter $M$ and a dimensionless parameter $\varepsilon$ related to the EFT length scale $l$, and the perturbation equation incorporates a velocity factor which is not constant. The quasinormal modes (QNMs) and time-domain waveforms are studied within the hyperboloidal framework. This approach reproduces the breakdown of the isospectrality and reveals that higher overtones are more sensitive to $\varepsilon$. As for the time domain, the mismatch function is introduced and found to scale as $\varepsilon^2$, which demonstrates that the waveform is stable as $\varepsilon$ varies. Finally, a velocity-dependent energy norm is employed to compute the pseudospectrum and characterize the migration of the QNM spectrum. We further define a quantity $ε_c$ that describes the magnitude of the instability of a QNM spectrum. Our analysis reveals that the dependence of $ε_c$ on $\varepsilon$ is complicated -- it may increase, decrease or even be nonmonotonic.
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spellingShingle Pseudospectrum and time-domain analysis of the EFT corrected black holes
Cao, Li-Ming
Ji, Ming-Fei
Wu, Liang-Bi
Zhou, Yu-Sen
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We study the linear perturbations of a spherically symmetric black hole corrected by dimension-6 terms in the effective field theory (EFT) of gravity. The solution is asymptotically flat and characterized by two parameters -- a mass parameter $M$ and a dimensionless parameter $\varepsilon$ related to the EFT length scale $l$, and the perturbation equation incorporates a velocity factor which is not constant. The quasinormal modes (QNMs) and time-domain waveforms are studied within the hyperboloidal framework. This approach reproduces the breakdown of the isospectrality and reveals that higher overtones are more sensitive to $\varepsilon$. As for the time domain, the mismatch function is introduced and found to scale as $\varepsilon^2$, which demonstrates that the waveform is stable as $\varepsilon$ varies. Finally, a velocity-dependent energy norm is employed to compute the pseudospectrum and characterize the migration of the QNM spectrum. We further define a quantity $ε_c$ that describes the magnitude of the instability of a QNM spectrum. Our analysis reveals that the dependence of $ε_c$ on $\varepsilon$ is complicated -- it may increase, decrease or even be nonmonotonic.
title Pseudospectrum and time-domain analysis of the EFT corrected black holes
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13894