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Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2414–2417 (1995)

Late-Time Tail of Wave Propagation on Curved Spacetime

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E. S. C. Ching1, P. T. Leung1, W. M. Suen2, and K. Young1
1Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130

Received 31 October 1994; published in the issue dated 27 March 1995

The late-time behavior of waves propagating on a class of curved spacetimes, including Schwarzschild, is studied. The late-time tail is not necessarily an inverse power of time. Our work extends, places in context, and provides understanding for the known results for the Schwarzschild spacetime. Analytic and numerical results are in excellent agreement.

© 1995 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.2414
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.2414
PACS:
04.30.Nk, 04.25.Dm