Linear mode stability of Kerr-Newman and its quasinormal modes

Abstract

We provide strong evidence that, up to $99.999\%$ of extremality, Kerr-Newman black holes (KN BHs) are linear mode stable within Einstein-Maxwell theory. We derive and solve, numerically, a coupled system of two PDEs for two gauge invariant fields that describe the most general linear perturbations of a KN BH (except for trivial modes that shift the parameters of the solution). We determine the quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum of the KN BH as a function of its three parameters and find no unstable modes. In addition, we find that the QNMs that are connected continuously to the gravitational $\ell =m=2$ Schwarzschild QNM dominate the spectrum for all values of the parameter space ($m$ is the azimuthal number of the wave function and $\ell$ measures the number of nodes along the polar direction). Furthermore, all QNMs with $\ell =m$ approach Re$\omega =m{\Omega }_H^{ext}$ and Im$\omega =0$ at extremality; this is a universal property for any field of arbitrary spin $|s|\le 2$ propagating on a KN BH background ($\omega$ is the wave frequency and ${\Omega }_H^{ext}$ the BH angular velocity at extremality). We compare our results with available perturbative results in the small charge or small rotation regimes and find good agreement. We also present a simple proof that the Regge-Wheeler (odd) and Zerilli (even) sectors of Schwarzschild perturbations must be isospectral.

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