Pith. sign in

REVIEW 8 cited by

Second Order Perturbations of Kerr Black Holes: Reconstruction of the Metric

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 2008.11770 v2 pith:AEWCHMMF submitted 2020-08-26 gr-qc

Second Order Perturbations of Kerr Black Holes: Reconstruction of the Metric

classification gr-qc
keywords orderblackfirstkerrmetricproceduregravitationalhole
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved
0 comments
Share X Bluesky LinkedIn Reddit HN
read the original abstract

Motivated by gravitational wave observations of binary black hole mergers, we present a procedure to compute the leading order nonlinear gravitational wave interactions around a Kerr black hole. We describe the formalism used to derive the equations for second order perturbations. We develop a procedure that allows us to reconstruct the first order metric perturbation solely from knowledge of the solution to the first order Teukolsky equation, without the need of Hertz potentials. Finally, we illustrate this metric reconstruction procedure in the asymptotic limit for the first order quasi-normal modes of Kerr. In a companion paper, we present a numerical implementation of these ideas.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 8 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. Modified Teukolsky Formalism for Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals in Higher-Derivative Gravity

    gr-qc 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Develops modified Teukolsky formalism for EMRIs in higher-derivative gravity and computes horizon and infinity fluxes for cubic gravity example.

  2. Metric Reconstruction for Generic Black-Hole Perturbations

    gr-qc 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    A traceful radiation gauge plus two transport equations from the stress-energy tensor enable hierarchical metric reconstruction for generic sources in Petrov type D black hole spacetimes.

  3. Perturbations of Plane Waves and Quadratic Quasinormal Modes on the Lightring

    gr-qc 2025-09 conditional novelty 7.0

    Second-order gravitational perturbations on plane waves are solved with a GHP master equation and tensor harmonics, yielding quadratic quasinormal mode ratios and selection rules.

  4. The Bondi--Sachs gauge, BMS frames, and memory in black hole perturbation theory

    gr-qc 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    Introduces a gauge transformation framework for BMS frames in multiscale black hole perturbation theory on Kerr that incorporates memory effects and avoids infrared divergences.

  5. Tidal perturbations of an extreme mass ratio inspiral around a Kerr black hole

    gr-qc 2026-01 conditional novelty 6.0

    A closed-form Kerr metric under slow quadrupolar tides yields spin-dependent tidal shifts of the ISCO and light ring, with larger shifts for retrograde orbits around fast-spinning holes.

  6. Twisting asymptotically-flat spacetimes

    gr-qc 2025-11 conditional novelty 6.0

    Twisting asymptotically-flat spacetimes are brought into a generalized Bondi gauge with finite radial expansion, producing new flux-balance laws, Carroll-boost symmetries, and finite supertranslated Kerr–Taub–NUT metrics.

  7. Excitation factors for horizonless compact objects: long-lived modes, echoes, and greybody factors

    gr-qc 2025-11 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    Excitation factors of long-lived quasinormal modes in horizonless compact objects scale with their small imaginary frequency, suppressing early contributions and producing a hierarchy where prompt ringdown uses ordina...

  8. Greybody factors, reflectionless scattering modes, and echoes of ultracompact horizonless objects

    gr-qc 2025-01 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    High-frequency quasi-reflectionless scattering modes in the greybody factors of ultracompact horizonless objects are responsible for echoes in the time-domain response.