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Advances in High Energy Physics
Volume 2015, Article ID 867601, 16 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/867601
Review Article

Quasi-Normal Modes: The “Electrons” of Black Holes as “Gravitational Atoms”? Implications for the Black Hole Information Puzzle

Christian Corda1,2,3

1Physics Department, IURS “Santa Rita”, Via Trasaghis 18/E, 00188 Roma, Italy
2Austro-Ukrainian Institute for Science and Technology, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10/136, 1040 Wien, Austria
3International Institute for Applicable Mathematics & Information Sciences (IIAMIS), B. M. Birla Science Centre, Adarsh Nagar, Hyderabad 500 463, India

Received 26 February 2015; Accepted 25 March 2015

Academic Editor: Maxim Khlopov

Copyright © 2015 Christian Corda. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The publication of this article was funded by SCOAP3.

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