Quasinormal modes and continuum response of de Sitter black holes via complex scaling method

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Main Authors: Ogawa, Shoya, Morikawa, Okuto, Hirose, Takuya
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author Ogawa, Shoya
Morikawa, Okuto
Hirose, Takuya
author_facet Ogawa, Shoya
Morikawa, Okuto
Hirose, Takuya
contents We apply the complex scaling method to black-hole perturbations in four-dimensional Schwarzschild--de~Sitter (dS) spacetimes. The method converts the outgoing-wave boundary-value problem into a non-Hermitian spectral problem and enables quasinormal-mode poles and the rotated continuum to be treated in a common framework. We focus in particular on the continuum level density, which characterizes the continuum response beyond isolated quasinormal-mode frequencies. Using Regge--Wheeler-type perturbation equations for scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational fields, we investigate how a nonzero cosmological constant modifies the pole and continuum sectors. We also discuss a possible extension to string-inspired coupled-channel systems, and illustrate that higher-dimensional dS black holes can be treated within the same framework, at least in tensor- and vector-type sectors. Our results indicate that complex scaling offers a useful spectral framework for analyzing both quasinormal modes and continuum response in black-hole physics.
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spellingShingle Quasinormal modes and continuum response of de Sitter black holes via complex scaling method
Ogawa, Shoya
Morikawa, Okuto
Hirose, Takuya
High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Physics
We apply the complex scaling method to black-hole perturbations in four-dimensional Schwarzschild--de~Sitter (dS) spacetimes. The method converts the outgoing-wave boundary-value problem into a non-Hermitian spectral problem and enables quasinormal-mode poles and the rotated continuum to be treated in a common framework. We focus in particular on the continuum level density, which characterizes the continuum response beyond isolated quasinormal-mode frequencies. Using Regge--Wheeler-type perturbation equations for scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational fields, we investigate how a nonzero cosmological constant modifies the pole and continuum sectors. We also discuss a possible extension to string-inspired coupled-channel systems, and illustrate that higher-dimensional dS black holes can be treated within the same framework, at least in tensor- and vector-type sectors. Our results indicate that complex scaling offers a useful spectral framework for analyzing both quasinormal modes and continuum response in black-hole physics.
title Quasinormal modes and continuum response of de Sitter black holes via complex scaling method
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03277