Black hole determinants and quasinormal modes

Aug, 2009
28 pages
Published in:
  • Class.Quant.Grav. 27 (2010) 125001
e-Print:
Report number:
  • NSF-KITP-09-145

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We derive an expression for functional determinants in thermal spacetimes as a product over the corresponding quasinormal modes. As simple applications we give efficient computations of scalar determinants in thermal AdS, BTZ black hole and de Sitter spacetimes. We emphasize the conceptual utility of our formula for discussing `1/N' corrections to strongly coupled field theories via the holographic correspondence.
Note:
  • 28 pages. v2: slightly improved exposition, references added
  • space-time: de Sitter
  • black hole: BTZ
  • black hole: quasinormal mode
  • black hole: anti-de Sitter
  • holography
  • oscillator
  • partition function
  • boundary condition
  • renormalization group
  • heat kernel