Perturbations of Kerr-de Sitter Black Holes and Heun's Equations

H. Suzuki, E. Takasugi, H. Umetsu
1998 Progress of theoretical physics  
It is well known that the perturbation equations of massless fields for the Kerr-de Sitter geometry can be written in the form of separable equations. The equations have five definite singularities so that the analysis has been expected to be difficult. We show that these equations can be transformed to Heun's equations, for which we are able to use known technique for the analysis of the solutions. We reproduce results known previously for the Kerr geometry and de Sitter geometry in the
more » ... nt limits of the Heun's functions. Our analysis applies can be extended to Kerr-Newman-de Sitter geometry for massless fields with spin 0 and 1/2.
doi:10.1143/ptp.100.491 fatcat:ai4rt3g6q5h5hfkxjoje5oeonu