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Conformal Field Theory Interpretation of Black Hole Quasinormal Modes

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: We obtain exact expressions for the quasinormal modes of various spin for the Bañados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole. These modes determine the relaxation time of black hole perturbations. Exact agreement is found between the quasinormal frequencies and the location of the poles of the retarded correlation function of the corresponding perturbations in the dual conformal field theory. This then provides a new quantitative test of the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.88.151301

Authors: Danny Birmingham, Ivo Sachs, Sergey N. Solodukhin

Institutions: University College Dublin, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Aspen Center for Physics, CERN, Enterprise Ireland, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Award: G146147026