Quasi normal modes

✍ Scribed by I. Sachs

• Book ID: 105357374
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 89 KB
• Volume: 52
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-8208
• DOI: 10.1002/prop.200310161

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In this talk we review different applications of quasi normal modes to black hole physics, string theory and thermalisation in quantum field theory. In particular, we describe the the relation between quasi normal modes of AdS black holes and the time scale for thermalisation in strongly coupled, large N conformal field theory. We also discuss the problem of unitarity within this approach.