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Jérémy Besson

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arXiv2026

Vishveshwara's waveform revisited: insights from a Keldysh quasinormal mode expansion

We revisit Vishveshwara's linear scattering on a Schwarzschild black hole to study the evolution of quasinormal mode activation along the full time-domain waveform. Specifically, by adopting a hyperboloidal approach we cast the scattering problem in a non-selfadjoint dynamics setting where a (Keldysh) resonant expansion in a bi-orthogonal system of quasinormal modes can be readily performed. The calculation reveals the neat correlation of the second peak in Vishveshwara's waveform to the fundamental mode and first overtones, closely following the ringdown waveform pattern of non-linear evolutions. The first peak is completely controlled, for even (Zerilli) perturbations, by the algebraically special mode and the nearby branch cut. This phenomenon is absent for odd (Regge-Wheeler) perturbations. These qualitative features are robust under change of initial data and, we argue, might provide insight into the mechanisms underlying the ringdown activation time in non-linear evolutions.

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arXiv2025

Asymptotics and Universality in Black Holes: from the quasinormal Weyl's law to the binary merger waveform

Current state-of-the-art approaches to black hole (BH) dynamics, encompassing several effective approximation schemes, offer a remarkable control of the quantitative aspects of strong gravity. They also provide key insights into some qualitative aspects of the problem. In spite of this, there remain blind spots that hinder the understanding of the mechanisms underlying some observed phenomena, in particular concerning simplicity and universality in BH spacetimes. Adopting an 'asymptotic reasoning' approach, by filtering non-essential degrees of freedom, can potentially unveil universality patterns by identifying key underlying structural stability mechanisms. We first illustrate such an asymptotic approach by focusing on a BH quasinormal (QNM) Weyl's law, that accounts for the universal asymptotics of the QNM "counting function". This permits to identify light-trapping and the (local) redshift effect as the underlying mechanisms, also offering a bridge to the universal patterns found in BH QNM spectral instability. As a by-product, Weyl's law universality formally opens an observational access to spacetime (effective) dimensionality. More heuristically, we sketch a program recently put forward to apply such 'asymptotic reasoning' to address the observed simplicity and universality patterns in binary BH merger dynamics. This program is built as a hierarchy of asymptotic models, potentially making contact with integrability theory in gravity, namely through the background sector in a "wave-mean flow" approach to BH binary dynamics.

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arXiv2025

Transients in black hole perturbation theory

Black hole quasinormal modes arise as eigenmodes of a non-normal Hamiltonian and consequently they do not obey orthogonality relations with respect to commonly used inner products, for example, the energy inner product. A direct consequence of this is the appearance of transient phenomena. This review summarises current developments on the topic, both in frequency- and time-domain. In particular, we discuss the appearance of i) transient plateaus: arbitrarily long-lived sums of quasinormal modes, corresponding to localised energy packets near the future horizon; ii) transient growth, with the latter either appearing in the vicinity of black hole phase transitions or in the context of higher-derivative Sobolev norms.

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arXiv2025

Quasi-normal mode expansions of black hole perturbations: a hyperboloidal Keldysh's approach

We study quasinormal mode expansions by adopting a Keldysh scheme for the spectral construction of asymptotic resonant expansions. Quasinormal modes are first cast in terms of a non-selfadjoint problem by adopting, in a black hole perturbation setting, a spacetime hyperboloidal approach. Then the Keldysh expansion of the resolvent, built on bi-orthogonal systems, provides a spectral version of Lax-Phillips expansions on scattering resonances. We clarify the role of scalar product structures in the Keldysh setting, that prove non-necessary to construct the resonant expansions (in particular the quasinormal mode time-series at null infinity), but are required to define the (constant) excitation coefficients in the bulk resonant expansion. We demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the Keldysh spectral approach to (non-selfadjoint) dynamics, even beyond its limits of validity, in particular recovering Schwarzschild black hole late power-law tails. We also study early dynamics by exploring i) the existence of an earliest time of validity of the resonant expansion and ii) the interplay between overtones extracted with the Keldysh scheme and regularity. Specifically, we address convergence aspects of the series and, on the other hand, we implement non-modal analysis tools, namely assessing $H^p$-Sobolev dynamical transient growths and constructing $H^p$-pseudospectra. Finally, we apply the Keldysh scheme to calculate ''second-order'' quasinormal modes and complement the qualitative study of overtone distribution by presenting the Weyl law for the counting of quasinormal modes in black holes with different (flat, De Sitter, anti-De Sitter) spacetime asymptotics.

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