Analytic Calculation of Quasi-Normal Modes
Abstract
We discuss the analytic calculation of quasi-normal modes of various types of perturbations of black holes both in asymptotically flat and in anti-de Sitter spaces. We obtain asymptotic expressions and also show how corrections can be calculated perturbatively. We pay special attention to low-frequency modes in anti-de Sitter space because they govern the hydrodynamic properties of a gauge theory fluid according to the AdS/CFT correspondence. The latter may have experimental consequences for the quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy ion collisions.
- Publication:
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Physics of Black Holes
- Pub Date:
- 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1007/978-3-540-88460-6_12
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0804.2713
- Bibcode:
- 2009LNP...769..471S
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 33 pages, prepared for the proceedings of the 4th Aegean Summer School on Black Holes, Mytilene, Greece, September 2007