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Title: Late-time tails in the Reissner-Nordstroem spacetime revisited

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Department of Physics, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama 35899 (United States)

We propose that the late-time tail problem in the Reissner-Nordstroem (RN) spacetime is dual to a tail problem in the Schwarzschild spacetime with a different initial data set: at a fixed observation point the asymptotic decay rate of the fields are equal. This duality is used to find the decay rate for tails in RN. This decay rate is exactly as in Schwarzschild, including the case of the extremely-charged RN spacetime (ERN). The only case where any deviation from the Schwarzschild decay rate is found is the case of the tails along the event horizon of an ERN spacetime, where the decay rate is the same as at future null infinity. As observed at a fixed location, the decay rate in ERN is the same as in Schwarzschild. We verify these expectations with numerical simulations.

OSTI ID:
21027861
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 76, Issue 10; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.104035; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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