2007/01/15 by Davide Batic, D. Batic, H. Schmid +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.2720277
published as J.Math.Phys.48:042502,2007 · 27 pages, corrected typo in eq. (1)
arxiv created 2007/01/15 · openalex publication_date 2007/04/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Starting with the whole class of type-D vacuum backgrounds with cosmological constant we show that the separated Teukolsky equation for zero rest-mass fields with spins s=±2 (gravitational waves), s=±1 (electromagnetic waves), and s=±1∕2 (neutrinos) is a Heun equation in disguise.