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Second order perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole

Reinaldo Gleiser, Oscar Nicasio, Richard Price, Jorge Pullin

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9510049

Abstract

We study the even-parity =2 perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole to second order. The Einstein equations can be reduced to a single linear wave equation with a potential and a source term. The source term is quadratic in terms of the first order perturbations. This provides a formalism to address the validity of many first order calculations of interest in astrophysics.

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