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Quasinormal modes prefer supersymmetry?

Yi Ling and Hongbao Zhang
Phys. Rev. D 68, 101501(R) – Published 20 November 2003
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Abstract

One ambiguity in loop quantum gravity is the appearance of a free parameter which is called the Immirzi parameter. Recently Dreyer has argued that this parameter may be fixed by considering the quasinormal mode spectrum of black holes, while at the price of changing the gauge group to SO(3) rather than the original one SU(2). Physically such a replacement is not quite natural or desirable. In this paper we study the relationship between the black hole entropy and the quasinormal mode spectrum in the loop quantization of N=1 supergravity. We find that a single value of the Immirzi parameter agrees with the semiclassical expectations as well. But in this case the lowest supersymmetric representation dominates, fitting well with the result based on statistical consideration. This suggests that, so long as fermions are included in the theory, supersymmetry may be favored for the consistency of the low energy limit of loop quantum gravity.

  • Received 4 September 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.101501

©2003 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Yi Ling*

  • CCAST (World Laboratory), P.O. Box 8730, Beijing 100080, China
  • Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100080, China

Hongbao Zhang

  • School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
  • Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, China

  • *Email address: yling@itp.ac.cn
  • Email address: hongbaozhang@pku.edu.cn

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Vol. 68, Iss. 10 — 15 November 2003

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