Physics – Mathematical Physics
Scientific paper
1999-09-28
Physics
Mathematical Physics
40 pages, 21 figures
Scientific paper
Quasinormal modes are the counterparts in open systems of normal modes in conservative systems; defined by outgoing-wave boundary conditions, they have complex eigenvalues. The conditions are studied for a system to have a supersymmetric(SUSY) partner with the same complex quasinormal-mode spectrum (or the same except for one eigenvalue). The discussion naturally includes total-transmission modes as well(incoming at one extreme and outgoing at the other). Several types of SUSY transformations emerge, and each is illustrated with examples, including the transformation among different Poschl-Teller potentials and the well-known identity in spectrum between the two parity sectors of linearized gravitational waves propagating on a Schwarzschild background. In contrast to the case of normal modes, there may be multiple essentially isospectral partners, each missing a different state. The SUSY transformation preserves orthonormality under a bilinear map which is the analog of the usual inner product for conservative systems. SUSY transformations can lead to doubled quasinormal and total-transmission modes; this phenomenon is analysed and illustrated. The existence or otherwise of SUSY partners is also relevant to the question of inversion: are open wave systems uniquely determined by their complex spectra?
den Brink Alec Maassen van
Leung Pak Tao
Suen W.-M.
Wong Chan Wong
Young Kenneth K.
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