Edison C. Santos | Searcharxiv

arXiv2019

Quasi-normal modes of black holes and naked singularities: revisiting the WKB method

In this paper we revisit the analysis of the ringdown frequencies in the form of quasi-normal modes for Schwarzschild,Schwarzschild de-Sitter and Reissner-Nordström space-times. We plot these frequencies, using the third-order WKB semi-analytical method against the mass, charge and cosmological constant for each corresponding space-time for various different spin-fields. We verify the stability of each black hole solution, including the extremal Reissner-Nordström space-time. Finally, we discover four different traits for the Schwarzschild de-Sitter space-time: i) the frequencies vanish in the extremal case; ii) the frequencies swap behavior before and after the extremal value; iii) indication that the naked singularity is stable for positive mass; iv) for the naked singularity case, there exists a cut-off mass in the scalar-field perturbation which depends only on the multipole number $\ell$.

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arXiv2017

Duality between k-essence and Rastall gravity

The k-essence theory with a power-law function of $(\partialϕ)^2$ and Rastall's non-conservative theory of gravity with a scalar field are shown to have the same solutions for the metric under the assumption that both the metric and the scalar fields depend on a single coordinate. This equivalence (called k-R duality) holds for static configurations with various symmetries (spherical, plane, cylindrical, etc.) and all homogeneous cosmologies. In the presence of matter, Rastall's theory requires additional assumptions on how the stress-energy tensor non-conservation is distributed between different contributions. Two versions of such non-conservation are considered in the case of isotropic spatially flat cosmological models with a perfect fluid: one (R1) in which there is no coupling between the scalar field and the fluid, and another (R2) in which the fluid separately obeys the usual conservation law. In version R1 it is shown that k-R duality holds not only for the cosmological models themselves but also for their adiabatic perturbations. In version R2, among other results, a particular model is singled out that reproduces the same cosmological expansion history as the standard $Λ$CDM model but predicts different behaviors of small fluctuations in the k-essence and Rastall frameworks.

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