Quasinormal resonances of rapidly-spinning Kerr black holes and the universal relaxation bound

Abstract

The universal relaxation bound suggests that the relaxation times of perturbed thermodynamical systems is bounded from below by the simple time-times-temperature (TTT) quantum relation τ×T≥ħπ. It is known that some perturbation modes of near-extremal Kerr black holes in the regime MTBH/ħ≪m−2 are characterized by normalized relaxation times πτ×TBH/ħ which, in the approach to the limit MTBH/ħ→0, make infinitely many oscillations with a tiny constant amplitude around 1 and therefore cannot be used directly to verify the validity of the TTT bound in the entire parameter space of the black-hole spacetime (Here {TBH,M} are respectively the Bekenstein-Hawking temperature and the mass of the black hole, and m is the azimuthal harmonic index of the linearized perturbation mode). In the present compact paper we explicitly prove that all rapidly-spinning Kerr black holes respect the TTT relaxation bound. In particular, using analytical techniques, it is proved that all black-hole perturbation modes in the complementary regime m−1≪MTBH/ħ≪1 are characterized by relaxation times with the simple dimensionless property πτ×TBH/ħ≥1.