| | Luboš Motl's reference frame: Quasinormal story on quasinormal modes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | In this case, there are "metastable" modes in which the particle sits in the "hole" for quite a long time, but eventually it escapes by quantum tunneling (the rate of the tunneling exponentially depends on the parameters, which is why the lifetime of various alpha-decays are so incredibly diverse in size). |
 | | The role of quasinormal modes in the context of string theory and especially the AdS/CFT correspondence was studied in many serious papers, starting from pioneering works such as the article of Horowitz and Hubeny. |
 | | The first working method to prove that "ln(3)" appears in the quasinormal modes was based on the analysis of the behavior of the continued fractions and their critical behavior - plus patching different partial solutions together. |
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