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We consider the problem of quasinormal modes (QNM) for strongly hyperbolic systems on stationary, asymptotically anti-de Sitter black holes, with very general boundary conditions at infinity. We argue that for a time slicing regular at the horizon the QNM should be identified with certain H k eigenvalues of the infinitesimal generator \({\mathcal{A}}\) of the solution semigroup. Using this definition we are able to prove directly that the quasinormal frequencies form a discrete, countable subset of \({\mathbb{C}}\) which in the globally stationary case accumulates only at infinity. We avoid any need for meromorphic extension, and the quasinormal modes are honest eigenfunctions of an operator on a Hilbert space. Our results apply to any of the linear fields usually considered (Klein- Gordon, Maxwell, Dirac, etc.) on a stationary black hole background, and do not rely on any separability or analyticity properties of the metric. Our methods and results largely extend to the locally stationary case. We provide a counter-example to the conjecture that quasinormal modes are complete. We relate our approach directly to the approach via meromorphic continuation.
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Warnick, C.M. On Quasinormal Modes of Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Black Holes. Commun. Math. Phys. 333, 959–1035 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-014-2171-1
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