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Quasinormal Modes and the Switchback Effect in Schwarzschild-de Sitter

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Pith's one-line read In Schwarzschild-de Sitter, null-ray bounces determine quasinormal modes and shock-wave delays.

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arxiv 2501.01388 v3 pith:5RVT5H2L submitted 2025-01-02 hep-th

Mir Mehedi Faruk , Facundo Rost , Jan Pieter van der Schaar This is my paper · ORCID
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The paper tries to show that in Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes of dimension $D>3$, the high-frequency (eikonal) quasinormal mode spectrum of a massive scalar field, and the switchback delay of quantum complexity after shock-wave perturbations, are both determined by the bending of null geodesics as seen by static-sphere observers. It derives closed-form expressions for the critical times $T_b^O$ and $T_c^O$ that set the real parts of the quasinormal frequencies, and for the shifts $\Delta\tau_b^O$ and $\Delta\tau_c^O$ induced by a pair of zero-total-energy shock waves. If these claims are right, the asymptotic spectra and complexity plateaus of SdS black holes are fixed for arbitrary mass by geometry alone, with the static-sphere proper-time normalization making the Nariai limit smooth.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing objects are the critical times $T_b^O$ and $T_c^O$, defined geometrically by integrals of the inverse blackening factor from the static sphere to the singularity or to infinity, with the static-sphere redshift factor $\gamma_O = \sqrt{1-(r_O/r_N)^2}$ converting coordinate time to static-sphere proper time. Together with the static-sphere inverse temperatures $\beta_{b,c}^O = 2\pi/\kappa_{b,c}^O$, they fix the asymptotic quasinormal frequencies through a Fourier transform of the complex time shift of reflected null rays. For the switchback calculation, the machinery is the pair of null-glued SdS geometries of masses $M$ and $M+E$, whose Kruskal-coordinate shifts $\alpha_{b,c}$ across the shock are constant in the double-scaling limit, producing the logarithmic terms in the final critical-time formulas.

What would settle it

A numerical solution of the massive scalar wave equation in four-dimensional SdS with Dirichlet boundary conditions at $r=r_O$ and no boundary at the horizons would settle the claim: if the high-$n$ quasinormal frequencies do not approach $\omega_{b,n}^O \approx (n\pi T_b^O \pm i\beta_b^O/4)/((T_b^O)^2+(\beta_b^O/4)^2)$ with the geometric $T_b^O$, the null-ray derivation is wrong; an independent check is whether the Euclidean continuation with these boundary conditions is elliptic, which the paper notes is open.

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Core claim

For arbitrary mass in $D>3$, a reflected radial null ray that leaves the right static sphere, bounces off the black-hole singularity (interior case) or future spacelike infinity (exterior case), and arrives at the left static sphere accumulates a complex time shift $\Delta t_b^O = 2T_b^O - i\beta_b^O/2$ and $\Delta t_c^O = -2T_c^O + i\beta_c^O/2$ at the static sphere. Fourier transforming these shifts yields the asymptotic quasinormal frequencies $\omega_{b,n}^O \approx (n\pi T_b^O \pm i\beta_b^O/4)/((T_b^O)^2+(\beta_b^O/4)^2)$, and similarly for the exterior region. The real parts $T_b^O$ and $T_c^O$ are the critical times given by the inward bending of the black-hole singularity and the outward bending of de Sitter infinity; they vanish in pure de Sitter and in the Nariai limit, where the quasinormal modes are purely decaying. Adding a positive-energy shock through the cosmological horizon and a negative-energy shock into the black hole shifts the symmetric critical times to the switchback formulas, extending the exterior complexity plateau and shortening the interior one by logarithmic functions of the shock-energy shifts $\alpha_b$ and $\alpha_c$. The derivation relies on decoupling the two regions by reflecting Dirichlet boundary conditions at the static sphere, which turns each half into an effective thermofield double.

Load-bearing premise

The entire construction assumes that a perfectly reflecting spherical mirror at the static sphere can decouple the black hole interior from the de Sitter exterior at leading semiclassical order, with its tension balancing the Hawking flux and its backreaction negligible; if that boundary condition is not consistent in the backreacting theory, the computed spectra and delays are not those of standard Schwarzschild-de Sitter.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The asymptotic s-wave quasinormal spectrum of SdS is oscillatory for generic mass in $D>3$, with the real part set by the critical times, and purely decaying in the pure de Sitter and Nariai limits.
  • The static-sphere normalization $\gamma_O$ is essential: without it the quasinormal frequencies and switchback delays would diverge in the Nariai limit, whereas with it they reduce to the expected $dS_2 \times S^{D-2}$ Nariai result.
  • A positive-energy shock in the exterior de Sitter region delays the onset of linear complexity growth by extending the plateau, while a matched negative-energy shock in the interior advances it, shortening the plateau; the two shifts are opposite and transfer degrees of freedom toward the maximum-entropy de Sitter vacuum.
  • The shock-induced shifts are proportional to the inverse static-sphere temperature and shorter than the scrambling time by a logarithm of the entropy, consistent with fast-scrambling expectations.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the reflecting mirror at the static sphere cannot be realized in the full backreacting theory, the formulas describe the mirror system rather than standard Schwarzschild-de Sitter; the paper itself flags this open question.
  • Because the critical times are purely geometric, the same null-ray construction should predict the eikonal quasinormal spectrum for gravitational and higher-spin perturbations, which a numerical wave-equation calculation could test.
  • The ratio of the exterior delay to the interior advance, set by the static-sphere temperatures, gives a mass-dependent number that a putative de Sitter holographic dual would need to reproduce, and could serve as a sharp target for toy models.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper develops a geometric description of the causal structure of Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) in D>3, from the perspective of static-sphere observers, and uses it to derive two sets of results: asymptotic s-wave quasinormal mode (QNM) spectra for the interior black-hole region and the exterior de Sitter region, and switchback time delays/advances of the critical times in the presence of a pair of zero-total-energy shock waves. The derivation uses reflected null geodesics, complexified static time, and the thermodynamic first law, with the static-sphere proper-time normalization playing a key role in reproducing the pure de Sitter and Nariai limits. The central quantitative formulas are (3.27)-(3.28) and (5.1)-(5.2) for the QNM frequencies, (3.29)-(3.30) for the critical times, and (5.3)-(5.4) for the shock-wave-shifted critical times. The paper explicitly assumes perfectly reflecting Dirichlet boundary conditions at the static sphere and acknowledges that the consistency of this assumption in the full backreacting theory is open.

Significance. If the results are correct, the paper provides a parameter-free, purely geometric determination of the asymptotic QNM frequencies and shock-wave switchback effects for arbitrary black-hole mass in SdS, with the static-sphere normalization ensuring that the Nariai limit is well behaved. The connection between the bending of the black-hole singularity/future infinity and the real parts of the QNM frequencies is a useful organizing principle, and the use of a globally consistent pair of shock waves is a notable improvement over single-shock constructions. The manuscript is also transparent about the open status of the Dirichlet mirror boundary conditions. However, the printed QNM formulas contain a factor error in the imaginary part that is internally inconsistent with the paper's own limiting formulas, so the central quantitative claims need correction before the results can be used as benchmarks.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section 3.2, Eqs. (3.27)-(3.28) and Section 5, Eqs. (5.1)-(5.2)] The imaginary parts of the QNM frequencies are missing a factor nπ. Starting from the complex time shifts (3.25)-(3.26) and the quantization condition e^{iωΔt}=1 used to obtain Eq. (3.14), one finds ω_n = nπ(T ± iβ/4)/(T^2+(β/4)^2), so both the real and imaginary numerators carry n, and the imaginary part also carries π. As printed, the imaginary numerator is ±iβ/4, independent of n and π. This is internally inconsistent with the pure-dS and Nariai limits quoted in Eqs. (3.33)-(3.34), which contain the factor 4πn, and in the BTZ limit T→0 it yields a single imaginary frequency ±4i/β rather than the known tower Im ω_n = -4πn/β (Ref. [89]). Since Eqs. (5.1)-(5.2) are the central quantitative claim of the paper, this factor must be corrected, and the Fourier-transform step from (3.25)-(3.26) to (3.27)-(3.28) should be displayed explicitly; Eq. (3.14) should also be corrected consistently.
  2. [Section 2.2, paragraph after Eq. (2.33), and footnote 1] The entire construction—the two effective thermofield double states, the QNM spectra, and the switchback delays—assumes a perfectly reflecting Dirichlet mirror at the static sphere whose backreaction is neglected. The manuscript itself notes that Dirichlet boundary conditions in the full backreacting theory are known not to be elliptic in general (Refs. [83-87]) and that the consistency question is open. This is a load-bearing physical assumption: if no such mirror can be realized, the computed spectra and complexity delays describe a modified system rather than standard SdS. The paper should either supply a consistency argument at the relevant semi-classical order or state prominently in the abstract and conclusions that all results are conditional on this boundary condition.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Section 3.2, Eqs. (3.29)-(3.30)] The analytic expressions for T_b^O and T_c^O are quoted without derivation; please include the integration steps and the branch choices for the logarithms, since these expressions enter the central QNM formulas.
  2. [Abstract and Section 1] The phrase "quasinormal mode frequencies" should be qualified as "asymptotic (eikonal, large-n) s-wave quasinormal mode frequencies"; as written, the abstract could be read as claiming the full QNM spectrum for arbitrary mass.
  3. [Eq. (3.14)] The same missing nπ in the imaginary part appears in the AdS review formula; after correcting the SdS formulas, update this displayed equation and state the sign convention for the Fourier transform.
  4. [Section 4.1, Eqs. (4.17)-(4.19)] The symbol T is used for the unperturbed critical time in a section where β=1/T is also the inverse temperature; please use a different symbol (for example, τ_c) to avoid ambiguity.
  5. [Section 4.2.1, Eq. (4.36)] The step stating that the imaginary part of r*(r_f)-r*(r_O) is precisely β_c/4 should be justified with the chosen branch of the tortoise coordinate; as written, the sign of the iβ_c/2 term is difficult to verify.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the QNM and switchback results are self-contained geometric and thermodynamic computations; self-citations are non-load-bearing.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is self-contained. The complex time shifts (3.25) and (3.26) are computed as geometric integrals (3.19) and (3.24) over the known SdS metric, with the static-sphere normalization defined in (2.30) and surface gravities in (2.31)-(2.33). The critical times T^O_b and T^O_c are evaluated explicitly in (3.29) and (3.30), and the QNM frequencies follow from Fourier quantization of those time shifts; the shock wave shifts α_c and α_b are obtained from the first law and horizon entropies (4.33) and (4.43), and the switchback delays (5.3) and (5.4) are solutions of the quadratic equations (4.40) and (4.44). No parameter is fitted to the quantities being predicted. The paper's reliance on the authors' earlier causal-structure paper [64] and on [51,81] concerns parameter-free geometric properties or consistency arguments that are not used as inputs defining the target frequencies or delays; these citations are supporting rather than load-bearing. The Dirichlet boundary condition at the static sphere is an explicitly stated assumption, and the paper openly acknowledges its full-consistency status is open. Separately, the printed imaginary parts in (3.27)-(3.28) and (5.1)-(5.2) appear to omit a factor nπ and are inconsistent with the paper's own Nariai and pure-dS limits (3.33)-(3.34); this is a mathematical correctness issue, not circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 1 invented entities

No free parameters are fitted to data; the geometry, static-sphere normalization, and shock-wave parameters are all set by the physical setup. The main postulates are the Dirichlet mirror at the static sphere, the eikonal approximation, the double scaling limit, the horizon first law, and the zero-total-energy shock-wave pair condition.

assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Dirichlet (reflecting) boundary conditions at the static sphere decouple the interior black hole and exterior dS regions, with negligible backreaction of the physical mirror.
    Needed to define the two effective thermofield double states and the QNM boundary conditions. The paper itself notes the consistency of these boundary conditions is unproven, citing non-ellipticity results (Section 2.2 and footnote 1).
  • domain assumption Eikonal/high-frequency WKB approximation: the scalar field correlator is dominated by null geodesics with frequency much larger than the curvature scale.
    Basis of the geometric QNM derivation (Section 3, eqs. (3.4)-(3.5)); standard but an approximation.
  • domain assumption Double scaling limit for shock waves: E/M goes to 0 and t_w goes to infinity with (E/M) e^{kappa t_w} fixed.
    Standard Shenker-Stanford limit used to compute the Kruskal coordinate shifts alpha (Sections 4.1-4.2).
  • domain assumption Horizon first law: dr_b/dM and dr_c/dM are related to the temperatures and entropies, with a minus sign in the cosmological region.
    Used to express alpha_b and alpha_c in terms of T and S (eqs. (4.14), (4.33)); standard but assumed.
  • domain assumption Shock waves in SdS must be added in pairs with zero total energy for global consistency.
    Cited to [51]; basis for studying the positive/negative energy pair (Section 4.2).
invented entities (1)
  • Spherical mirror/brane at the static sphere radius r_O
    purpose: Physically realizes the Dirichlet boundary conditions that decouple the interior black hole and exterior dS regions and defines the QNM spectrum.
    No independent evidence; the paper assumes its tension can counteract Hawking flux pressure and that its backreaction is negligible, while noting consistency is open (Section 2.2 and Conclusions).

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abstract

We study the causal structure of Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS), including shock wave perturbations, in $D>3$ using reflected null ray trajectories, either through the interior black hole or the exterior de Sitter region. Specifically, we compute the quasinormal mode frequencies in the eikonal, high-frequency, limit, by identifying the `critical time', for arbitrary values of the black hole mass. We emphasize the important role of the static sphere proper time normalization and related boundary conditions. The computed critical times indicate the presence of singularities in the late-time, large mass, scalar field correlator in SdS, which should be resolved by introducing complex geodesics consistent with interior black hole and exterior de Sitter effective thermofield double states. In addition we relate the critical time to a diverging holographic complexity observable and compute the `switchback' delay by adding a pair of shock wave perturbations for arbitrary values of the mass of the black hole.

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