Spectral analysis of radial Dirac operators in the Kerr-Newman metric and its applications to time-periodic solutions

May, 2006
15 pages
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  • J.Math.Phys. 47 (2006) 102503
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We investigate the existence of time-periodic solutions of the Dirac equation in the Kerr-Newman background metric. To this end, the solutions are expanded in a Fourier series with respect to the time variable tt and the Chandrasekhar separation ansatz is applied so that the question of existence of a time-periodic solution is reduced to the solvability of a certain coupled system of ordinary differential equations. First, we prove the already known result that there are no time-periodic solutions in the non-extreme case. Then it is shown that in the extreme case for fixed black hole data there is a sequence of particle masses (mN)NN(m_N)_{N\in\mathbb N} for which a time-periodic solution of the Dirac equation does exist. The period of the solution depends only on the data of the black hole described by the Kerr-Newman metric.
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  • 02.30.Lt
  • 97.60.Lf
  • 02.30.Hq
  • Dirac equation
  • spectral analysis
  • black holes
  • Fourier series
  • differential equations
  • operator: Dirac