Pseudospectra of Holographic Quasinormal Modes

TL;DR

This paper investigates the stability of black hole quasinormal modes in Anti-de Sitter spaces using pseudospectrum analysis, highlighting implications for gauge/gravity duality and strongly coupled quantum systems.

Contribution

It introduces pseudospectrum analysis to study the stability of quasinormal frequencies of AdS black holes, a novel approach in this context.

Findings

Pseudospectra reveal instability regions of quasinormal modes.

Scalar and gauge field modes exhibit distinct pseudospectral features.

Results inform the robustness of holographic models in gauge/gravity duality.

Abstract

Quasinormal modes and frequencies are the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of a non-Hermitian differential operator. They hold crucial significance in the physics of black holes. The analysis of quasinormal modes of black holes in asymptotically Anti-de Sitter geometries plays also a key role in the study of strongly coupled quantum many-body systems via gauge/gravity duality. In contrast to normal Sturm-Liouville operators, the eigenvalues of non-Hermitian (and non-normal) operators generally exhibit instability under small perturbations. This research focuses on the stability analysis of quasinormal frequencies pertaining to asymptotically planar AdS black holes, employing pseudospectrum analysis. Specifically, we concentrate on the pseudospectra of scalar and transverse gauge fields, shedding light on their relevance within the framework of gauge/gravity duality.