Exact solution of Kerr black hole perturbations via CFT$_2$ and instanton counting. Greybody factor, Quasinormal modes and Love numbers

TL;DR

This paper derives exact expressions for Kerr black hole properties like greybody factors, quasinormal modes, and Love numbers using conformal field theory and instanton counting, providing a novel analytical approach.

Contribution

It introduces a new method to compute Kerr black hole perturbation characteristics via the AGT correspondence and irregular Virasoro conformal blocks, extending the toolkit for gravitational analysis.

Findings

Explicit formulas for greybody factors, quasinormal modes, and Love numbers.

Results agree with previous literature in certain limits.

Method can be applied to other gravitational backgrounds.

Abstract

We give explicit expressions for the finite frequency greybody factor, quasinormal modes and Love numbers of Kerr black holes by computing the exact connection coefficients of the radial and angular parts of the Teukolsky equation. This is obtained by solving the connection problem of the confluent Heun equation in terms of the explicit expression of irregular Virasoro conformal blocks as sums over partitions via the AGT correspondence. In the relevant approximation limits our results are in agreement with existing literature. The method we use can be extended to solve the linearized Einstein equation in other interesting gravitational backgrounds.