Black Hole Greybody Factors from Korteweg-de Vries Integrals: Theory

Abstract

The dynamics of perturbed non-rotating black holes (BHs) can be described in terms of master equations of the wave type with a potential. In the frequency domain, the master equations become time-independent Schrödinger equations with no discrete spectrum. It has been recently shown that these wave equations possess an infinite number of symmetries that correspond to the flow of the infinite hierarchy of Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equations. As a consequence, the infinite set of associated conserved quantities, the KdV integrals, are the same for all the different master equations that we can consider. In this paper we show that the BH scattering reflection and transmission coefficients characterizing the continuous spectrum can be fully determined via a moment problem, in such a way that the KdV integrals provide the momenta of a distribution function depending only on the reflection coefficient. We also discuss the existence and uniqueness of solutions, strategies to solve the moment problem, and finally show the case of the Pöschl-Teller potential where all the steps can be carried out analytically.

22 pages, 5 figures

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