Correspondence between quasinormal modes and grey-body factors of Schwarzschild--Tangherlini black holes

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Main Authors: Han, Hyewon, Gwak, Bogeun
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author Han, Hyewon
Gwak, Bogeun
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Gwak, Bogeun
contents We investigate the correspondence between the quasinormal modes and grey-body factors of Schwarzschild--Tangherlini black holes. The gravitational perturbations in higher-dimensional black holes can be classified into scalar, vector, and tensor types. Considering the dimension-dependent forms of their effective potentials, the correspondence was examined for each dimension and perturbation mode. The accurate quasinormal modes were computed by suitably adopting the continued fraction and integration-through-midpoints methods, depending on the structure of the singularity. The grey-body factor can be obtained through its correspondence with the quasinormal mode, and its accuracy was analyzed by calculating its difference from the numerically computed grey-body factor. The correspondence failed for $l=2$ scalar gravitational perturbations in $D\ge7$ because the form of the potential is markedly different from that in four dimensions. The vector and tensor perturbation types exhibited good correspondence accuracies in all cases. The breakdown of the correspondence was rigorously demonstrated to stem from multiple potential barriers, and its applicability to each mode in higher dimensions was assessed.
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spellingShingle Correspondence between quasinormal modes and grey-body factors of Schwarzschild--Tangherlini black holes
Han, Hyewon
Gwak, Bogeun
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
We investigate the correspondence between the quasinormal modes and grey-body factors of Schwarzschild--Tangherlini black holes. The gravitational perturbations in higher-dimensional black holes can be classified into scalar, vector, and tensor types. Considering the dimension-dependent forms of their effective potentials, the correspondence was examined for each dimension and perturbation mode. The accurate quasinormal modes were computed by suitably adopting the continued fraction and integration-through-midpoints methods, depending on the structure of the singularity. The grey-body factor can be obtained through its correspondence with the quasinormal mode, and its accuracy was analyzed by calculating its difference from the numerically computed grey-body factor. The correspondence failed for $l=2$ scalar gravitational perturbations in $D\ge7$ because the form of the potential is markedly different from that in four dimensions. The vector and tensor perturbation types exhibited good correspondence accuracies in all cases. The breakdown of the correspondence was rigorously demonstrated to stem from multiple potential barriers, and its applicability to each mode in higher dimensions was assessed.
title Correspondence between quasinormal modes and grey-body factors of Schwarzschild--Tangherlini black holes
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18613