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Quasi-normal mode expansions of black hole perturbations: a hyperboloidal Keldysh's approach

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Pith's one-line read The paper claims that Keldysh resolvent expansions, built from modes and comodes of a hyperboloidal non-selfadjoint generator, provide a scalar-product-free spectral construction of quasinormal-mode expansions that accurately reproduces…

desk verdict Solid Keldysh formalism and impressive numerics, but the Schwarzschild tail recovery rests on an unproven continuum limit. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.02793 v2 pith:XPOL7367 submitted 2024-12-03 gr-qc physics.optics

classification gr-qcphysics.optics MSC 83C5783C3535P0547A1065M70
keywords quasinormalmodesblackholeperturbationsKeldyshexpansionnon-selfadjointoperatorshyperboloidalfoliationPricelawtailspseudospectrumWeyl
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The reading

The paper argues that quasinormal-mode (QNM) expansions of black hole perturbations are best built not from orthogonality or completeness of modes, but from a Keldysh expansion of the resolvent of the non-selfadjoint time generator in a hyperboloidal slicing. In this setting QNMs are proper eigenvalues with normalisable eigenfunctions, and the expansion coefficients come from dual pairing with the left eigenfunctions, the comodes, so no scalar product is needed. For Gaussian test data the truncated Keldysh series reproduces the boundary time-domain signal from early times dominated by high overtones through late ringdown, with remarkable accuracy in all studied asymptotics. The most striking claim is that applying the same Keldysh prescription to the non-convergent eigenvalues that discretise the Schwarzschild branch cut recovers the power-law late-time tails, including the Price law $tau^{{-(ell+1)}}$. The paper also extracts second-order QNMs, constructs H^p-pseudospectra, identifies H^p transient growths, and confirms the QNM Weyl law N(omega) ~ $omega^{3}$ in flat, de Sitter and anti-de Sitter asymptotics.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the Keldysh expansion of the resolvent of the infinitesimal time generator L in a hyperboloidal compactification. The hyperboloidal foliation and coordinate compactification turn outgoing boundary conditions into regularity requirements, making QNMs proper eigenvalues of a non-selfadjoint operator with normalisable eigenfunctions in a Hilbert or Banach space. The Keldysh identity expresses R_L(omega) as a sum over poles omega_n with residues given by rank-one operators <alpha_n, .> v_n, where alpha_n are comodes solving L^t alpha_n = omega_n alpha_n, plus a holomorphic remainder; this remainder provides the explicit error bound for truncated QNM series. The discrete Chebyshev pseudospectral approximation then replaces L by a matrix, and the same identity, applied to all eigenvalues of the finite-rank approximant, reconstructs the full evolution, which is what makes the branch-cut tail recovery possible.

What would settle it

Take a fixed Schwarzschild case (say ell=2), evaluate the truncated Keldysh sum over the branch-cut eigenvalues at a late time tau, and compare with a direct numerical evaluation of the Bromwich integral around the branch cut for increasing grid sizes N. If the difference does not decrease toward zero as N grows, the recovered Price tail is a finite-rank artifact rather than a property of the true resolvent.

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Core claim

The central discovery is that the Keldysh expansion of the resolvent, R_L(omega) = sum_n [<alpha_n, .>/(omega_n - omega)] v_n + H(omega), built from modes v_n and comodes alpha_n of L and its transpose L^t, gives a spectral, scalar-product-free construction of Lax-Phillips resonant expansions. The paper demonstrates numerically, in the Poschl-Teller model and in Schwarzschild, Schwarzschild-de Sitter and Schwarzschild-anti-de Sitter spacetimes, that the resulting QNM series u(tau,x) ~ sum_n $e^{{i omega_n tau}}$ a_n v_n(x), with a_n = <alpha_n,u_0>/<alpha_n,v_n>, matches the hyperboloidal time evolution of Gaussian data at boundaries throughout the signal. Beyond its strict domain of validity, applying the same formula to the discretised branch-cut eigenvalues reproduces the Schwarzschild late-time power-law tails with the correct Price exponent. If this claim survives scrutiny, the Keldysh scheme is a single spectral algorithm that accounts for both the discrete QNM content and the continuous branch-cut content of black hole perturbation dynamics.

Load-bearing premise

The tail recovery rests on the assumption that the non-convergent eigenvalues discretising the Schwarzschild branch cut, each weighted with its Keldysh coefficient, form a valid discrete approximation (like a Riemann sum) of the continuous branch-cut contribution to the inversion integral; the paper does not prove this and notes it only 'could be understood' that way.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Keldysh QNM expansions are independent of the scalar product: only the product a_n v_n(x) is defined, while constant excitation coefficients require an additional norm.
  • The scheme generalises Ansorg-Macedo expansions to arbitrary dimensions and to non-diagonalisable cases, going beyond effective one-dimensional problems.
  • The truncated Keldysh series can be used as a spectral time-domain reconstruction tool: given an acceptable error and a number of modes, the contour plots fix the earliest valid time for the expansion.
  • For Gaussian data in the Poschl-Teller case the bulk QNM series converges for tau > 1/kappa, providing a natural timescale for ringdown fitting.
  • The QNM Weyl law N(omega) ~ omega^3 holds in flat, de Sitter and anti-de Sitter asymptotics.

Reading between the lines

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

  • If the Riemann-sum interpretation of the branch-cut reconstruction is made rigorous with an error estimate, the Keldysh scheme would provide a unified spectral algorithm for ringdown and tails that could be applied to Kerr or higher-dimensional spacetimes.
  • The tau > 1/kappa convergence threshold hints at a first-principles selection criterion for the start time of ringdown fits in gravitational-wave data analysis; testing it on realistic inspiral-merger-ringdown waveforms would be a natural next step.
  • The delta-like H^p transient growth in the p to infinity limit suggests that high-derivative norms can expose an initial loss of regularity; connecting this with Aretakis-type instability at extremal horizons is a testable extension.
  • Since the Keldysh scheme extends to quadratic pencils, it could provide a practical spectral route to second-order QNM excitation coefficients for mode coupling with different angular quantum numbers.
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Summary. The paper develops a Keldysh (modes/comodes) expansion of the resolvent for hyperboloidal, non-selfadjoint black-hole perturbation generators, and uses it to construct quasinormal-mode (QNM) expansions. The authors clarify that the dual-pairing form of the expansion does not require a scalar product, while constant excitation coefficients require one, and they apply the scheme to Pöschl-Teller, Schwarzschild, Schwarzschild-dS, and Schwarzschild-AdS testbeds with Gaussian data. They report accurate reconstruction of boundary time series from early times onward, recovery of Schwarzschild late-time power-law tails by applying the Keldysh prescription to discretized branch-cut eigenvalues, studies of early-time convergence and H^p transient growths, H^p pseudospectra consistent with Warnick's band structure, and numerical evidence for a universal Weyl law for QNM counting.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the paper provides an efficient and conceptually clean spectral route to QNM expansions and, strikingly, to late-time tails. The analytic Keldysh formulation in terms of transpose operators is a genuine clarification of the role of scalar products, and Appendix B.3's finite-rank identity is exact and useful. The numerical comparisons between spectral and time-domain signals use no fitted parameters, and the H^p pseudospectra and Weyl-law results are useful exploratory contributions. However, the headline tail-recovery result and the early-time convergence claim rest on heuristic or single-data evidence, and several supporting studies are deferred to future papers by the same authors, so the significance is conditional on those gaps being closed.

major comments (4)
  1. [Sec. 5.1 and App. B.3] The claim that applying the Keldysh scheme to the non-convergent eigenvalues discretizing the Schwarzschild branch cut accurately recovers Price-law tails is load-bearing but not quantitatively supported. Appendix B.3 shows exactly that the finite-rank matrix L_N reconstructs e^{iτL_N}, but this does not establish convergence of the finite-rank branch-cut dynamics to the continuum hyperboloidal evolution. The branch-cut eigenvalues do not converge as N grows (Figs. 2c, 3c), and Fig. 12 only shows that the apparent power-law window extends to later times with increasing N. The paper lacks a fixed-τ error-versus-N comparison against the continuum branch-cut integral, a demonstration that the fitted exponent β_fit converges to −(ℓ+1) as N grows, or an estimate of the discretization error. Without such evidence, the excellent β_fit values in Fig. 11 could be a serendipitous finite-rank effect rather than a property of the true resolvent.
  2. [Sec. 5.2.2, Eqs. (88)–(90), Fig. 16] The convergence result for the bulk QNM series at fixed τ_o depends critically on the estimate C(N_QNM,L) ≲ C e^{N_QNM} in Eq. (89). This estimate is read off from a tangent at the origin in Fig. 16 for a single Gaussian initial data u_0 in Eq. (204), while Eq. (37) states that the error constant should be independent of the initial data. The manuscript does not provide a data-independent bound or even numerical evidence that the growth exponent is stable across initial data. Therefore the conclusion that τ_o > 1/κ implies convergence is, at present, a heuristic observation for a special test case, not a general result. This should be stated explicitly and, ideally, supported by additional data or by a proof of the exponential bound.
  3. [Sec. 5.2.1 and Sec. 6, conclusions ii.3] The conclusions state that Pöschl-Teller and dS asymptotics 'present good, indeed uniform, convergence properties' of the QNM time series, but the body of the paper only reports that Fig. 14 'suggests' pointwise convergence and that the Schwarzschild-dS case is 'more difficult to evaluate.' The contour-line visual inspection is performed for one initial data and is not a proof of uniform convergence. Please align the summary statements with the exploratory status of the numerical evidence, or provide a rigorous or more systematic numerical test of uniform convergence.
  4. [Sec. 3.3, Sec. 6, and abstract] The abstract and conclusions state that the paper 'demonstrates the efficiency and accuracy' of the Keldysh approach, but all demonstrations use a single Gaussian initial data family (Appendix E.3) and are limited by the tolerance of the ODE/DAE solver in several cases (Fig. 7). The paper itself acknowledges that a systematic study of generic initial data is left for future work [56]. For a proof-of-principle article this is acceptable, but the wording should be softened from 'demonstrate' to 'illustrate in proof-of-principle testbeds' so that the claims match the evidence presented.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Footnote 14 and Sec. 6, item i.3] Footnote 14 explicitly states 'We lack a proof of the later statement' regarding uniqueness of the QNM time series at null infinity, yet conclusion i.3 presents this uniqueness as a result. Please add a qualifier such as 'conjectured' or 'supported by the Lax-Phillips framework'.
  2. [Fig. 14 caption and Sec. 5.2.1] The caption of Fig. 14b uses Λ = 0.11, whereas Section 3.2.1 and the surrounding text mainly use Λ = 0.07/M². Please unify the notation so the reader can reproduce the parameter choices.
  3. [Sec. 5.4, Fig. 24] The Weyl-law evidence is based on a linear fit to 'a few dozens of points at the end of the series' for each spacetime. Please report the number of fitted points, the residuals, and the sensitivity of the fitted exponent to the fitting window, since the claim of universality across asymptotics rests on this numerical fit.
  4. [Sec. 5.3, Eq. (102)] The statement |⟨v̂−_p, v̂+_p⟩_{H^p}| ∼ 1 − 1/p^4 is presented without derivation or numerical table; please indicate whether this is an analytic result, a fit, or a numerical observation, and provide the corresponding data or reference.

Circularity Check

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Schwarzschild-tail 'recovery' is the finite-rank Keldysh identity: App. B.3's Eq. (139) equals e^{iτL_N} by construction, so the tail agreement is algebraic; the continuum Price law is an unproved limit.

  1. self definitional [Appendix B.3, Eqs. (136)-(139); used in Sec. 5.1]
    "the forthright application of the expressions in the Keldysh scheme to all the eigenvalues of the matrix approximant of L does recover the dynamics from the evolution operator. This fact justifies the presence of polynomial tails when applying the scheme to the appropriate subset of eigenvalues..."

    Eq. (139) is a rewrite of Eq. (136): for the diagonalizable finite-rank approximant L_N, the Keldysh sum over all its eigenvectors is exactly the matrix propagator e^{iτL_N}u0. The branch-cut Keldysh sum is therefore, by construction, the branch-cut component of the same finite-rank evolution that generates the 'time-domain' tail curve (method of lines on L_N, Sec. E.2). The late-time agreement in Figs. 10-11 is an algebraic consistency check, not an independent validation that the continuum Schwarzschild branch cut has been captured. The paper's Price-law claim thus reduces at fixed N to the finite-rank identity; the missing piece is a quantitative convergence proof of the non-convergent branch-cut eigenvalues to the continuum branch-cut integral (Fig. 12 offers only a qualitative trend).

full rationale

This is a largely self-contained spectral-methods paper. The Keldysh resolvent expansion is taken from external literature (Mennicken-Möller, Beyn-Latushkin-Rottmann-Matthes) and rederived in Sec. 2; the QNM coefficients are set by dual pairings and checked against time-domain integrations for four potentials, with no parameter fitted to force agreement. The H^p-pseudospectra and Weyl-law sections are independent numerical analyses. The one genuinely circular element is the advertised 'recovery' of Schwarzschild tails: Appendix B.3 shows that the Keldysh sum over all eigenvalues of the discretized generator L_N is identically the finite-rank propagator e^{iτL_N}. Consequently, the branch-cut part of the Keldysh sum agrees with the late-time part of the same matrix evolution by construction, not by independent physics; the 'Price-law recovery' of Sec. 5.1 is thus a property of the finite-rank model unless one proves convergence of the non-convergent branch-cut eigenvalues to the continuum branch-cut integral, which the paper does not (Fig. 12 is only qualitative). Self-citations [1] and [10] are refinements or background, not load-bearing for the Keldysh formula itself, which comes from external sources. This partial circularity affects one highlighted beyond-validity claim, while the QNM expansion results themselves remain independent.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central derivation rests on standard operator-theoretic results (Keldysh, Fredholm theory) and on the hyperboloidal framework from [21,22]. The main new assumption is the ad hoc Riemann-sum interpretation of branch-cut eigenvalues for tail recovery, plus an empirically fitted error-constant bound for the convergence claim. No new physical entities are introduced.

free parameters (3)
  • Error-constant growth exponent in convergence bound = C(N_QNM,L) ≤ C·e^{N_QNM}, C unspecified
    Section 5.2.2 estimates C(N_QNM,L) from the tangent at the origin of Fig. 16, using the same Gaussian initial data, to conclude convergence for τ_o > 1/κ. The exponential rate is fitted to numerical data rather than derived.
  • Gaussian initial data parameters = a=8, b=0.1
    Hand-chosen test initial data (Eq. 204); used for all demonstrations. Not fitted to results, but the proof-of-principle conclusions are only directly verified for this family.
  • Cosmological constant and AdS radius choices = Λ=0.07/M^2 for S-dS; α=1 (r_h=R=1) for S-AdS
    Chosen example values in proof-of-principle spirit; authors note dependence on Λ is not systematically studied.
assumptions (6)
  • standard math Keldysh expansion of the resolvent for Fredholm index-0 operator pencils
    Invoked in Section 2.1 (Eqs. 18-22) following [8,35]; forms the basis of the QNM coefficients.
  • domain assumption QNM eigenvalues are simple and isolated in the studied domain
    Section 2.1: 'we assume in addition, for simplicity, that the ω_n's are non-degenerate (simple)'. The text says extension to degenerate cases is straightforward, but it is not carried out.
  • domain assumption Operator F(ω)=L−ωI (or L−ωB) is Fredholm of index 0 on the chosen spaces
    Section 2.1, assumed to guarantee discreteness of spectrum and meromorphy of the resolvent.
  • domain assumption Hyperboloidal compactification turns outgoing conditions into regularity and renders QNMs as eigenvalues of a well-defined non-selfadjoint operator
    Follows [21,22] and is the setting for the whole method; cited as established, not proven in this paper.
  • domain assumption Warnick's H^p band characterization of QNM eigenvalues
    Used in Sections 4.2.2 and 5.3.1 to interpret H^p pseudospectra and transient growths; imported from [21] and cited as theorem.
  • ad hoc to paper Discretized branch-cut eigenvalues provide a Riemann-sum approximation of the continuous branch cut
    Section 5.1 uses this as a heuristic explanation of tail recovery; explicitly not derived or quantified.

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abstract

We study quasinormal mode expansions by adopting a Keldysh scheme for the spectral construction of asymptotic resonant expansions. Quasinormal modes are first cast in terms of a non-selfadjoint problem by adopting, in a black hole perturbation setting, a spacetime hyperboloidal approach. Then the Keldysh expansion of the resolvent, built on bi-orthogonal systems, provides a spectral version of Lax-Phillips expansions on scattering resonances. We clarify the role of scalar product structures in the Keldysh setting, that prove non-necessary to construct the resonant expansions (in particular the quasinormal mode time-series at null infinity), but are required to define the (constant) excitation coefficients in the bulk resonant expansion. We demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the Keldysh spectral approach to (non-selfadjoint) dynamics, even beyond its limits of validity, in particular recovering Schwarzschild black hole late power-law tails. We also study early dynamics by exploring i) the existence of an earliest time of validity of the resonant expansion and ii) the interplay between overtones extracted with the Keldysh scheme and regularity. Specifically, we address convergence aspects of the series and, on the other hand, we implement non-modal analysis tools, namely assessing $H^p$-Sobolev dynamical transient growths and constructing $H^p$-pseudospectra. Finally, we apply the Keldysh scheme to calculate ''second-order'' quasinormal modes and complement the qualitative study of overtone distribution by presenting the Weyl law for the counting of quasinormal modes in black holes with different (flat, De Sitter, anti-De Sitter) spacetime asymptotics.

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