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arxiv: 2605.17840 · v2 · pith:GJP472BFnew · submitted 2026-05-18 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph.HE· cond-mat.stat-mech· hep-th

Pole Skipping, Avoided Crossing, and Resonant Excitation in Kerr Quasinormal Modes near Algebraically Special Frequencies

Kei-ichiro Kubota , Hayato Motohashi This is my paper

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Kerr quasinormal modes near algebraically special frequencies show apparent bifurcation from avoided crossing and disappearance from pole skipping.

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Kerr black hole quasinormal modes near certain special frequencies display anomalous behaviors including apparent bifurcation, sudden disappearance, and a nonsmooth link to the non-rotating Schwarzschild limit. The paper follows the locations of poles and zeros belonging to the Green's function building blocks as they move across different Riemann sheets in the complex plane. This movement shows that the seeming split in modes is produced by an avoided crossing together with resonant excitation. The vanishing of modes occurs when a quasinormal-mode pole is canceled by a zero from a Matsubara mode, an instance of pole skipping. The same tracking makes the connection to the Schwarzschild spectrum appear continuous once the sheets are properly accounted for.

Core claim

Tracking poles and zeros of Green-function building blocks across different Riemann sheets shows that the bifurcation of Kerr quasinormal modes near algebraically special frequencies results from an avoided crossing accompanied by resonant excitation, while the disappearance is due to pole skipping caused by cancellation of a quasinormal-mode pole by a Matsubara-mode zero. This accounts for the nonsmooth connection to the Schwarzschild limit.

What carries the argument

Poles and zeros of Green-function building blocks tracked across Riemann sheets, which locate the physical origins of anomalous spectral features without additional assumptions about boundary conditions.

If this is right

  • The apparent bifurcation is produced by an avoided crossing with resonant excitation of the modes.
  • Mode disappearance occurs through pole skipping via cancellation between a quasinormal-mode pole and a Matsubara zero.
  • The link between Kerr and Schwarzschild quasinormal modes becomes smooth once Riemann-sheet structure is included.
  • No extra physical sectors or boundary conditions are required to explain the observed anomalies.

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  • The same pole-and-zero tracking can be applied to overtones or to perturbations of other rotating compact objects.
  • Resonant excitation during avoided crossings may influence the ringdown amplitudes observed in gravitational-wave signals.
  • Pole skipping may connect to hydrodynamic-like modes or to analytic continuations used in other boundary-value problems.

Load-bearing premise

The poles and zeros of the Green-function building blocks, when tracked across Riemann sheets, fully capture the physical quasinormal-mode spectrum without missing contributions from other sectors or boundary conditions.

What would settle it

Numerical computation of quasinormal-mode frequencies in Kerr spacetime that fails to reproduce the predicted avoided crossing or the exact cancellation at pole-skipping points near algebraically special frequencies.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.17840 by Hayato Motohashi, Kei-ichiro Kubota.

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Kerr quasinormal modes near algebraically special frequencies exhibit anomalous behavior, including apparent bifurcation, disappearance, and a nonsmooth connection to the Schwarzschild limit, which has remained puzzling for decades. Tracking poles and zeros of Green-function building blocks across different Riemann sheets, we show that the bifurcation is due to an avoided crossing accompanied by resonant excitation, while the disappearance is due to pole skipping caused by cancellation of a quasinormal-mode pole by a Matsubara-mode zero. This resolves the physical origin of these long-standing anomalies.

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Summary. The manuscript claims that anomalous behaviors in Kerr quasinormal modes near algebraically special frequencies—specifically apparent bifurcation, mode disappearance, and a nonsmooth Schwarzschild limit—originate from pole-zero interactions in Green-function building blocks. Tracking these poles and zeros across Riemann sheets shows that bifurcation arises from an avoided crossing with resonant excitation, while disappearance results from pole skipping via exact cancellation of a quasinormal-mode pole by a Matsubara-mode zero.

Significance. If substantiated, the result supplies a concrete physical mechanism for decades-old puzzles in the Kerr QNM spectrum and demonstrates the utility of systematic pole-zero continuation for diagnosing mode interactions and limiting cases. The approach avoids parameter fitting and directly links observed anomalies to cancellations and avoided crossings.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section describing the Green-function construction and Riemann-sheet continuation] The central attribution of bifurcation and disappearance to avoided crossings and pole skipping presupposes that the tracked poles and zeros of the selected Green-function building blocks, when continued across sheets, exhaust the spectrum fixed by ingoing-horizon and outgoing-infinity boundary conditions. In Kerr, the ergoregion and frame-dragging introduce additional analytic structure (possible branch cuts or superradiant sectors) that may lie outside these blocks; if any physical mode is missed, the identification of the anomalies would be incomplete. This assumption is load-bearing for the main claim and requires explicit verification that no other contributions affect the tracked trajectories near the algebraically special frequencies.
  2. [Numerical results and pole-tracking figures] The manuscript states that cancellations produce the observed nonsmooth limits, yet the provided description does not include explicit numerical checks or derivations confirming that the pole-zero cancellation exactly reproduces the reported bifurcation and disappearance. Without such verification, the support for the mechanism remains provisional.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Introduction] Define algebraically special frequencies and Matsubara modes with explicit equations at first use to aid readers unfamiliar with the precise locations.
  2. [Figures showing pole and zero trajectories] Label all pole trajectories in the figures with the corresponding Riemann sheet and indicate the precise cancellation points.

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We thank the referee for the careful reading and constructive comments on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and will revise the paper accordingly to strengthen the presentation.

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  1. Referee: The central attribution of bifurcation and disappearance to avoided crossings and pole skipping presupposes that the tracked poles and zeros of the selected Green-function building blocks, when continued across sheets, exhaust the spectrum fixed by ingoing-horizon and outgoing-infinity boundary conditions. In Kerr, the ergoregion and frame-dragging introduce additional analytic structure (possible branch cuts or superradiant sectors) that may lie outside these blocks; if any physical mode is missed, the identification of the anomalies would be incomplete. This assumption is load-bearing for the main claim and requires explicit verification that no other contributions affect the tracked trajectories near the algebraically special frequencies.

    Authors: The Green-function building blocks are constructed to satisfy precisely the ingoing-horizon and outgoing-infinity boundary conditions that define the quasinormal modes. The Riemann-sheet continuation is performed within this framework, and the resulting poles correspond to the QNM spectrum. Superradiant effects associated with the ergoregion are already incorporated in the standard Kerr QNM definition; our tracking targets the relevant non-superradiant modes near the algebraically special frequencies. To address the concern, we will add an explicit discussion confirming that no extraneous poles or branch cuts intersect the tracked trajectories in the vicinity of these frequencies. revision: partial

  2. Referee: The manuscript states that cancellations produce the observed nonsmooth limits, yet the provided description does not include explicit numerical checks or derivations confirming that the pole-zero cancellation exactly reproduces the reported bifurcation and disappearance. Without such verification, the support for the mechanism remains provisional.

    Authors: We agree that direct numerical verification would strengthen the claim. The figures show the pole and zero trajectories and their exact coincidence at the algebraically special frequencies, but we will add explicit checks in the revised manuscript, such as evaluating the residue or the Green-function amplitude near the cancellation points, to demonstrate how pole skipping produces the bifurcation, disappearance, and nonsmooth Schwarzschild limit. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: direct analytic continuation of poles/zeros explains anomalies without reduction to inputs

full rationale

The paper derives its explanations for bifurcation, disappearance, and nonsmooth Schwarzschild limit by explicitly tracking poles and zeros of Green-function building blocks across Riemann sheets and identifying avoided crossings plus pole-zero cancellations. No quoted step equates a claimed prediction to a fitted parameter, self-defined quantity, or load-bearing self-citation whose validity is assumed rather than independently verified. The central identification rests on the analytic structure of the chosen building blocks under the stated boundary conditions; this structure is not shown to be equivalent to the target anomalies by construction. The derivation is therefore self-contained and does not trigger any of the enumerated circularity patterns.

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The work rests on the standard framework of black-hole perturbation theory in general relativity; no new free parameters, ad-hoc axioms, or invented entities are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Quasinormal modes correspond to poles of the retarded Green function in the complex frequency plane.
    Standard assumption invoked when the authors track poles of Green-function building blocks.
  • domain assumption The Kerr metric and its linear perturbations are described by the Teukolsky equation or equivalent master equations.
    Background assumption required to define the algebraically special frequencies and the associated modes.

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