Conformal Klein-Gordon equations and quasinormal modes
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2007-02-01
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da Rocha, R.
de Oliveira, E. Capelas
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Springer
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Using conformal coordinates associated with conformal relativity-associated with de Sitter spacetime homeomorphic projection into Minkowski spacetime-we obtain a conformal Klein-Gordon partial differential equation, which is intimately related to the production of quasi-normal modes (QNMs) oscillations, in the context of electromagnetic and/or gravitational perturbations around, e.g., black holes. While QNMs arise as the solution of a wave-like equation with a Poschl-Teller potential, here we deduce and analytically solve a conformal 'radial' d'Alembert-like equation, from which we derive QNMs formal solutions, in a proposed alternative to more completely describe QNMs. As a by-product we show that this 'radial' equation can be identified with a Schrodinger-like equation in which the potential is exactly the second Poschl-Teller potential, and it can shed some new light on the investigations concerning QNMs.
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de Sitter spacetime, quasinormal modes, gravitational waves, conformal structures, d'Alembert equation, projective relativity
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International Journal of Theoretical Physics. New York: Springer/plenum Publishers, v. 46, n. 2, p. 301-317, 2007.