Quasi-normal modes of black holes in scalar-tensor theories with non-minimal derivative couplings [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01641


We study the quasi-normal modes of asymptotically anti-de Sitter black holes in a class of shift-symmetric Horndeski theories where a gravitational scalar is derivatively coupled to the Einstein tensor. The space-time differs from exact Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter, resulting in a different effective potential for the quasi-normal modes and a different spectrum. We numerically compute this spectrum for a massless test scalar coupled both minimally to the metric, and non-minimally to the gravitational scalar. We find interesting differences from the Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter black hole found in general relativity.

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R. Dong, J. Sakstein and D. Stojkovic
Thu, 7 Sep 17
30/65

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures. Comments are welcome