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A detailed study of quasinormal frequencies of the Kerr black hole
We compute the quasinormal frequencies of the Kerr black hole using a
continued fraction method. The continued fraction method first proposed by
Leaver is still the only known method stable and accurate for the numerical
determination of the Kerr quasinormal frequencies. We numerically obtain not
only the slowly but also the rapidly damped quasinormal frequencies and analyze
the peculiar behavior of these frequencies at the Kerr limit. We also calculate
the algebraically special frequency first identified by Chandrasekhar and
confirm that it coincide with the quasinormal frequency only at the
Schwarzschild limit.Comment: REVTEX, 15 pages, 7 eps figure
High-Order Contamination in the Tail of Gravitational Collapse
It is well known that the late-time behaviour of gravitational collapse is
{\it dominated} by an inverse power-law decaying tail. We calculate {\it
higher-order corrections} to this power-law behaviour in a spherically
symmetric gravitational collapse. The dominant ``contamination'' is shown to
die off at late times as . This decay rate is much {\it
slower} than has been considered so far. It implies, for instance, that an
`exact' (numerical) determination of the power index to within
requires extremely long integration times of order . We show that the
leading order fingerprint of the black-hole electric {\it charge} is of order
.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure
Bounds on area and charge for marginally trapped surfaces with cosmological constant
We sharpen the known inequalities and between the area and the electric charge of a stable marginally
outer trapped surface (MOTS) of genus g in the presence of a cosmological
constant . In particular, instead of requiring stability we include
the principal eigenvalue of the stability operator. For we obtain a lower and an upper bound for in terms of as well as the upper bound for the charge, which reduces to in the stable case . For
there remains only a lower bound on . In the spherically symmetric, static,
stable case one of the area inequalities is saturated iff the surface gravity
vanishes. We also discuss implications of our inequalities for "jumps" and
mergers of charged MOTS.Comment: minor corrections to previous version and to published versio
Decay widths of large-spin mesons from the non-critical string/gauge duality
In this paper, we use the non-critical string/gauge duality to calculate the
decay widths of large-spin mesons. Since it is believed that the string theory
of QCD is not a ten dimensional theory, we expect that the non-critical
versions of ten dimensional black hole backgrounds lead to better results than
the critical ones. For this purpose we concentrate on the confining theories
and consider two different six dimensional black hole backgrounds. We choose
the near extremal AdS6 model and the near extremal KM model to compute the
decay widths of large-spin mesons. Then, we present our results from these two
non-critical backgrounds and compare them together with those from the critical
models and experimental data.Comment: 21 pages and 3 figure
Associations between subjective and objective visual function in patients with unilateral macular holes
AbstractForty-six patients with uniocular macular holes and unaffected, fellow eyes were studied to evaluate inter- and intraocular associations between various objective tests of visual function and perceived visual ability. The affected eye had significant associations between visual acuity (VA) and the fovea threshold test, but for the fellow eye only VA and low-contrast VA 10% were associated. The reduction in visual acuity under low-contrast conditions relative to high-contrast did not differ between the affected eye and the healthy eye. Subjective visual ability seems to depend more on the visual acuity of the affected eye than the healthy eye
Late-Time Evolution of Charged Gravitational Collapse and Decay of Charged Scalar Hair - II
We study analytically the initial value problem for a charged massless
scalar-field on a Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime. Using the technique of
spectral decomposition we extend recent results on this problem. Following the
no-hair theorem we reveal the dynamical physical mechanism by which the charged
hair is radiated away. We show that the charged perturbations decay according
to an inverse power-law behaviour at future timelike infinity and along future
null infinity. Along the future outer horizon we find an oscillatory inverse
power-law relaxation of the charged fields. We find that a charged black hole
becomes ``bald'' slower than a neutral one, due to the existence of charged
perturbations. Our results are also important to the study of mass-inflation
and the stability of Cauchy horizons during a dynamical gravitational collapse
of charged matter in which a charged black-hole is formed.Comment: Latex 15 pages, Revtex.st
Evidence for nonhadronic degrees of freedom in the transverse mass spectra of kaons from relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions?
We investigate transverse hadron spectra from relativistic nucleus-nucleus
collisions which reflect important aspects of the dynamics - such as the
generation of pressure - in the hot and dense zone formed in the early phase of
the reaction. Our analysis is performed within two independent transport
approaches (HSD and UrQMD) that are based on quark, diquark, string and
hadronic degrees of freedom. Both transport models show their reliability for
elementary as well as light-ion (C+C, Si+Si) reactions. However, for
central Au+Au (Pb+Pb) collisions at bombarding energies above 5
AGeV the measured transverse mass spectra have a larger
inverse slope parameter than expected from the calculation. Thus the pressure
generated by hadronic interactions in the transport models above 5
AGeV is lower than observed in the experimental data. This finding shows
that the additional pressure - as expected from lattice QCD calculations at
finite quark chemical potential and temperature - is generated by strong
partonic interactions in the early phase of central Au+Au (Pb+Pb) collisions.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures,discussions extended, references added, to be
published in Phys. Rev. Let
Asymptotic quasinormal modes of Reissner-Nordstr\"om and Kerr black holes
According to a recent proposal, the so-called Barbero-Immirzi parameter of
Loop Quantum Gravity can be fixed, using Bohr's correspondence principle, from
a knowledge of highly-damped black hole oscillation frequencies. Such
frequencies are rather difficult to compute, even for Schwarzschild black
holes. However, it is now quite likely that they may provide a fundamental link
between classical general relativity and quantum theories of gravity. Here we
carry out the first numerical computation of very highly damped quasinormal
modes (QNM's) for charged and rotating black holes. In the Reissner-Nordstr\"om
case QNM frequencies and damping times show an oscillatory behaviour as a
function of charge. The oscillations become faster as the mode order increases.
At fixed mode order, QNM's describe spirals in the complex plane as the charge
is increased, tending towards a well defined limit as the hole becomes
extremal. Kerr QNM's have a similar oscillatory behaviour when the angular
index . For the real part of Kerr QNM frequencies tends to
, being the angular velocity of the black hole horizon, while
the asymptotic spacing of the imaginary parts is given by .Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures. Added result on the asymptotic spacing of the
imaginary part, minor typos correcte
Enhancement of singly and multiply strangeness in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at 158A GeV/c
The idea that the reduction of the strange quark suppression in string
fragmentation leads to the enhancement of strange particle yield in
nucleus-nucleus collisions is applied to study the singly and multiply strange
particle production in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at 158A GeV/c. In this
mechanism the strange quark suppression factor is related to the effective
string tension, which increases in turn with the increase of the energy, of the
centrality and of the mass of colliding system. The WA97 observation that the
strange particle enhancement increases with the increasing of centrality and of
strange quark content in multiply strange particles in Pb-Pb collisions with
respect to p-Pb collisions was accounted reasonably.Comment: 8 pages, 3 PostScript figures, in Latex form. submitted to PR
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