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About the Significance of Quasinormal Modes of Black Holes

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Quasinormal modes have played a prominent role in the discussion of perturbations of black holes, and the question arises whether they are as significant as normal modes are for self adjoint systems, such as harmonic oscillators. They can be significant in two ways: Individual modes may dominate the time evolution of some perturbation, and a whole set of them could be used to completely describe this time evolution. It is known that quasinormal modes of black holes have the first property, but not the second. It has recently been suggested that a discontinuity in the underlying system would make the corresponding set of quasinormal modes complete. We therefore turn the Regge-Wheeler potential, which describes perturbations of Schwarzschild black holes, into a series of step potentials, hoping to obtain a set of quasinormal modes which shows both of the above properties. This hope proves to be futile, though: The resulting set of modes appears to be complete, but it does not contain any individual mode any more which is directly obvious in the time evolution of initial data. Even worse: The quasinormal frequencies obtained in this way seem to be extremely sensitive to very small changes in the underlying potential. The question arises whether - and how - it is possible to make any definite statements about the significance of quasinormal modes of black holes at all, and whether it could be possible to obtain a set of quasinormal modes with the desired properties in another way.

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gr-qc 5 hep-th 2

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2026 5 2025 2

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gr-qc · 2026-04-27 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0 · 2 refs

Localized ultraviolet perturbations to black hole effective potentials drive the fundamental quasinormal mode along spiral paths in the complex plane, with trajectories set by perturbation size, decay profile, and interplay between delta-function and jump-discontinuity types.

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gr-qc · 2025-11-01 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

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Properties of black holes in non-linear electrodynamics

hep-th · 2026-04-15 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0 · 2 refs

Analytic charged black holes in nonlinear electrodynamics with non-monotonic lapse functions support stable light rings and additional longer-lived quasinormal modes compared to Einstein gravity.

Green function of the P\"{o}schl-Teller potential

gr-qc · 2025-10-20 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Exact time-domain Green function computed for the Pöschl-Teller approximation to black-hole perturbation potentials, revealing additional early-time exponentially growing modes and a light-cone plus historical waveform decomposition.

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