The fuzzball model of a black hole is an attempt to resolve the many paradoxes and puzzles of black hole physics that have revealed themselves over the last century. These badly behaved solutions of general relativity have given physicists one of the few laboratories to test candidate quantum theories of gravity. Though little is known about exactly what lies beyond the event horizon, and what the ultimate fate of matter that falls in to a black hole is, we know a few intriguing and elegant semi-classical results that have kept physicists occupied. Among these are the known black hole entropy and the Hawking radiation process.

As an operational approach to the Bekenstein-Hawking formula S_{BH}=A/4l_{Pl}^{2} for the black hole entropy, we consider the reversible contraction of a spinning thin shell to its event horizon and find that its thermodynamic entropy approaches $S_{\mathrm{BH}}$. In this sense the shell, called a "black shell", imitates and is externally indistinguishable from a black hole. Our work is a generalization of the previous result [10] for the spherical case. We assume the exterior space-time of the shell is given by the Kerr metric and match it to two different interior metrics, a vacuum one and a non-vacuum one. We find the vacuum interior embedding breaks down for fast spinning shells. The mechanism is not clear and worth further exploring. We also examine the case of a Kerr-AdS exterior, without trying to find a detailed interior solution. We expect the same behavior of the shell when the horizon limit is approached.

Κύριο αντικείμενο μελέτης της παρούσας μεταπτυχιακής διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι οι περιστρεφόμενοι αστέρες νετρονίων. Λόγω του ότι οι κλασικές διαταρακτικές μέθοδοι που εφαρμόζονται για την εύρεση της ακτίνας ενός περιστρεφόμενου πολυτροπικού μοντέλου περιορίζονται, από την επιφάνεια του αστέρα, αναπτύξαμε μία μέθοδο για τον υπολογισμό ποσοτήτων πέραν αυτού του ορίου. Αυτή η γενικευμένη μέθοδος χρησιμοποιεί τις μετανευτώνειες παραμέτρους ως όρους διαταραχής. Υλοποιώντας έναν κώδικα σε γλώσσα προγραμματισμού Fortran, υπολογίσαμε εκτεταμένους πίνακες ποσοτήτων και σταθερών. Μέσω της γενικευμένης αυτής μεθόδου επιτυγχάνεται η εύρεση της ακριβούς τιμής της ακτίνας ενός τέτοιου μοντέλου καθώς και ο καθορισμός της κρίσιμης παραμέτρου περιστροφής, η οποία αποτελεί μία μετανευτώνεια παράμετρο. Ο υπολογισμός της κρίσιμης παραμέτρου διαταραχής επιτυγχάνεται με ευκολία, κυρίως εκ του λόγου ότι η μέθοδος έχει υπολογίσει εκτεταμένους πίνακες συναρτησιακών τιμών. Οι υπολογιζόμενες κρίσιμες παράμετροι διαταραχής είναι μεγαλύτερες των αντιστοίχων τιμών της βιβλιογραφίας (κυρίως σε σύγκριση με τους Fahlman-Anand [55]), και φαίνεται να συμφωνούν καλύτερα με τις τιμές που υπολογίζονται από τις λεγόμενες επαναληπτικές μεθόδους. Τα αποτελέσματα επαληθεύουν με μεγάλη ακρίβεια τιμές συναρτήσεων και παραμέτρων σε σύγκριση με την κλασική βιβλιογραφία. Η παρούσα εργασία χωρίζεται σε πέντε μέρη, τα οποία αναπτύσσονται στα κεφάλαια 1, 2, 3, 4 και 5. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο, περιγράφεται ο αστέρας νετρονίων ως αστροφυσικό αντικείμενο. Δίνεται βάρος τόσο στη δομή του όσο και στα φυσικά χαρακτηριστικά του. Η ύπαρξη των αστέρων νετρονίων είναι απόλυτα συνδεδεμένη με τους πάλσαρς. Αυτοί αποτελούν ένα «ζωντανό» παράδειγμα περιστρεφομένων αστέρων νετρονίων; έτσι, γίνεται αναφορά στις φυσικές ιδιότητες και στις διεργασίες που πραγματοποιούνται σε αυτούς. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο, αναφερόμαστε στις καταστατικές εξισώσεις που διέπουν το εσωτερικό των αστέρων νετρονίων, και στην έννοια του πολυτρόπου. Αφενός μεν, διότι δεν μπορεί να πραγματοποιηθεί μία μελέτη για αυτούς τους αστέρες χωρίς να υιοθετηθεί κάποια καταστατική εξίσωση, αφετέρου δε διότι μία από τις πλέον ενδεικτικές για την περιγραφή τους (και την οποία εμείς υιοθετούμε) είναι αυτή του πολυτρόπου. Επιπλέον, αναλύουμε τις εξισώσεις που διέπουν το αδιατάρακτο πολυτροπικό μοντέλο, όπως και αυτές που περιγράφουν το αντίστοιχο διαταραγμένο, σύμφωνα με τη θεωρία που ανέπτυξε ο Chandrasekhar. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο, χρησιμοποιούμε τη Γενική Θεωρία της Σχετικότητας στη μελέτη του πολυτροπικού μοντέλου, εστιάζοντας κυρίως στον τρόπο με τον οποίο τροποποιείται η κλασική θεώρηση, στο πώς μετασχηματίζονται η βασικές ποσότητες του μοντέλου, και στο πώς προκύπτουν οι σχέσεις της μετανευτώνειας προσέγγισης. Εξάγουμε τις μετανευτώνειες εξισώσεις της υδροδυναμικής και αναπτύσσουμε το διαταρακτικό μοντέλο επίλυσης, από το οποίο προκύπτουν οι εξισώσεις που επιλύουμε αριθμητικά. Στο τέταρτο κεφάλαιο, κάνουμε αναφορά στις διάφορες αριθμητικές μεθόδους που έχουν αναπτυχθεί για την μελέτη του σχετικιστικά περιστρεφόμενου πολυτροπικού μοντέλου. Στο πέμπτο κεφάλαιο, παρουσιάζουμε πίνακες αποτελεσμάτων και ενδιαφέρουσες γραφικές παραστάσεις. Δίνουμε επίσης ορισμένες αλγοριθμικές λεπτομέρειες για το πρόγραμμά μας. Συγκεκριμένα, γενικεύουμε τη μέθοδο των μετανευτωνείων προσεγγίσεων και αναλύουμε τα πλεονεκτήματα της. Ακολούθως, παραθέτουμε μία περιγραφή της αριθμητικής διαπραγμάτευσης της μεθόδου και την πορεία υλοποίησής της. Τέλος, παρατίθενται οι πίνακες των αποτελεσμάτων και τα τελικά συμπεράσματα. / In the present Thesis, we study rotating neutron stars. Due to the fact that the classical perturbation methods implemented to compute the radius of a polytropic rotating model are restricted by the star's surface, we develop a method for continuing integrations beyond this limit. This general approach utilises the postnewtonian parameters in terms of disturbance. By the application of a code written in Fortran, we calculate extensive tables of quantities and constants. Furthermore, we compute the radius as well as the critical rotation parameter, which plays the role of a postnewtonian term. This Thesis is organized in five chapters. In the first chapter, the neutron star is presented as an astrophysical object. Its structure and physical characteristics are of a great importance. Moreover, the existence of neutron stars is linked to pulsars, which are "living" examples of rotating neutron stars. Therefore, the physical characteristics of these objects are discussed in this chapter. The second chapter refers to the equations that describe the structure of the neutron stars and to the concept of polytropes. First, due to the difficulty in implementing a study for these stars without the adoption of any equation of state as well as due to the most indicative one for their description which is that of the polytrope. Second, the equations that refer to the undistorted and those that describe the corresponding distorted configurations are analysed in this chapter, in accordance with Chandrasekhar's perturbation theory. In the third chapter, the General Theory of Relativity is used to the study of the polytropic model, focusing on how the classical theory is corrected, on how the basic model's quantities are transformed and on how the equations of the postnewtonian approach are derived. The equations to be solved result from the latter ones. Furthermore, a a discussion on the various numerical methods that have been developed for studying the relativistic rotating polytopric model is given in the fourth chapter. In the fifth chapter of this Thesis, a number of tables illustrating results as well as some interesting diagrams are included. Certain algorithmic details for our program are given. We also discuss the generalisation of the postnewtonian approach and its advantages.

V klasické fyzice m·že být ustavena statická rovnováha v soustavě, která obsahuje extrémně nabité zdroje gravitačního a elektromagnetického pole. Udivujícím faktem je, že tato situace m·že nastat i pro černé díry v relativis- tické fyzice. Tato práce vyšetřuje speciální případ nekonečně dlouhé, extrémně nabité struny, zkoumá geometrii prostoročasu, elektrogeodetiky, vlastnosti zdroje a srovnává řešení se situací v klasické fyzice. Dále se zabýváme analogickou situací v dynamickém prostoročase s kosmologickou konstantou, a řešení porovnáváme s jeho statickou verzí. Nakonec zkoumáme periodické řešení Laplaceovy rovnice, které odpovídá nekonečně mnoha extremálním bodovým zdroj·m rozloženým v pravidelném rozestupu podél přímky. Vyšetřujeme vlastnosti elektrostatického potenciálu a ukazujeme, že v limitě velké vzdálenosti od osy tvořené zdroji pře- chází toto řešení v nabitou strunu. 1

Submitted by Vasti Diniz (vastijpa@hotmail.com) on 2017-09-19T13:39:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1029692 bytes, checksum: e88e69e5c9a3cffdaf665a4b3a2d8d85 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-19T13:39:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1029692 bytes, checksum: e88e69e5c9a3cffdaf665a4b3a2d8d85 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-28 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / We show that the theory of General Relativity can be entirely formulated in the language of the integrable Weyl geometry. We develop the concept of Weyl frames and state the fact that they are completely equivalent as far as geodesic motion is concerned. In the case of General Relativity, we build an action that is manifestly invariant with respect to Weyl transformations. In this scenario, the gravitational field is described by a combination of both the metric and a geometrical scalar field. We illustrate this point by examining how distinct geometrical and physical pictures of the same phenomena may arise in different frames for the particular case of conformally flat spacetimes. Besides, we show that our choice of Weyl geometry for describing the space-time of General Relativity completely agrees with Poincare ideas that the geometry of space was merely a convention and that no geometry is more correct than any other, only more convenient. On the other hand, we consider the Brans-Dicke gravitational theory as a point of departure for constructing a geometric scalar-field theory. In this approach we apply the Palatini variational method to the Brans-Dicke action. We then are naturally led to conclude that space-time has the geometrical structure of a Weyl integrable manifold. We briefly examine some features of this scalar-tensor theory in which Brans-Dicke scalar field now plays the role of a geometrical field. / A gravitagao tern lido atribuida, desde a aparigao da relatividade geral, a curvatura do espago­tempo. A linguagem geometrodinamica por esta teoria introduzida, representa uma ferra­menta conveniente para predizer o comportamento da materia. Partindo da ideia proposta por Poincare de que a geometria do espago é apenas uma convengao, afirmando que nenhuma geometria é mais correta que outra, mas mais conveniente, mostramos como certas teorias da gravitagao, ern particular a teoria geral da relatividade, assim como a teoria de Brans-Dicke, podem ser completamente reformuladas numa geometria que é uma generalizagao da geometria riemanniana: a geometria de Weyl integravel. Corn esta escolha da linguagem matematica, o movimento das particulas e raios de luz correspondem a geodesicas weylia­nas, as quais satisfazem uma nova classe de invariancia, a invariancia por transformagoes de Weyl. Estas transformagoes permitem definir os chamados referenciais de Weyl e, no caso da teoria da gravitagao criada por Einstein, recupera-la na sua formulagao riemanniana, num gauge particular. Por outro lado, esta modificagao na dinamica dos objetos traz uma nova percepgao dos fenomenos fisicos que tentaremos explorar.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:14:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 2241811 bytes, checksum: d494ba9e01bd7d249facca38063cf6ba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-04-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Theories of extra dimensions have been extensively studied in recent years with the original intention of solving the hierarchy problem. Among the models of extra dimensions we can mention the braneworld models, more precisely, the Randall-Sundrum model, which considers our universe as a brane embedded in an ambient space with an extra dimension of infinite size. The fundamental aspect of the brane models is that matter and fields are confined in a hypersurface and only gravity has access to all dimensions. Thus, observational tests involving gravity may provide a way of verifying the existence of extra dimensions. With this idea in mind, in this work, we find black hole solutions in a regularized version of a RSII type brane and then we consider two classical tests of general relativity to these solutions. We studied the in uence of transversal movement in the four-dimensional path of the particles. We note that the de ection of light and the time delay, in this scenario, depend on the energy ( frequency ) of the light signal and can, therefore, give rise to the phenomenon of gravitational rainbow. We also discuss a model of thick branes known as the split fermion model. In this model electrons and protons are located on di¤erent hypersurfaces of the brane. We found that, in the presence of a gravitational eld generated by a massive body, these particles will experience di¤erent four-dimensional geometries. This violation of the equivalence principle, from the viewpoint of four-dimensional observers, produces interesting phenomena as, for instance, the gravitational induction of an electric dipole in a hydrogen atom. We veri ed that the Hamiltonian that describes this e¤ect has the same form of the Stark Hamiltonian, i.e., H = ~A ~r, where the tidal acceleration ~A(due to the separation of electron and proton in the extra dimension) substitutes the electric eld and the reduced mass atom replaces the electric charge. / Teorias de dimensões extras têm sido amplamente estudadas nos últimos anos, com o intuito original de resolver o problema da hierarquia. Entre os modelos de dimensões extras podemos citar o modelo de branas Randal-Sundrum, que trata o nosso universo como uma brana imersa em um espaço ambiente com uma dimensão extra de comprimento infinito. O aspecto fundamental do cenário de branas é que a matéria e os campos estão confinados em uma hipersuperfície e, apenas, a gravidade tem acesso a todas as dimensões. Sendo assim, testes observacionais envolvendo a gravitação podem oferecer meios de se verificar a existência das dimensões extras. Com esta ideia em mente, neste trabalho, encontramos soluções de buracos negros em uma versão regularizada de uma brana (ou seja, com espessura) do tipo RSII e aplicamos, então, dois testes clássicos da relatividade geral para estas soluções de buracos negros, estudando a influência do movimento transversal nas trajetórias quadrimensionais das partículas. Constatamos que o desvio da luz e o atraso temporal, neste cenário, passam a depender da energia (frequência) do sinal luminoso, podendo, portanto, dar origem ao fenômeno de arco-íris gravitacional. Discutimos também um modelo de branas com espessura, conhecido como modelo de separação de férmions, formulado com o propósito de explicar a estabilidade do próton sem recorrer a algum tipo de simetria. Neste modelo, elétrons e prótons estão localizados em diferentes hipersuperfícies da brana. Verificamos que na presença de um campo gravitacional gerado por um corpo massivo, estas partículas irão sentir diferentes geometrias quadrimensionais. Esta aparente violação do princípio da equivalência, do ponto de vista de observadores quadrimensionais, produz interessantes fenômenos como, por exemplo, a indução, pela gravidade, de um dipolo elétrico em um átomo de Hidrogênio. Verificamos que a Hamiltoniana que descreve este efeito tem a mesma forma da Hamiltoniana de Stark, ou seja, H = ~A ~r, onde a aceleração de maré ~A (devido à separação de elétron e próton na dimensão extra) está no lugar do campo elétrico e a massa reduzida do átomo substitui a carga elétrica.

Há duas brechas quânticas nos Teoremas da Singularidade em Relatividade Geral: violações das condições clássicas de energia e flutuações quânticas da geometria do espaço-tempo. Nesta dissertação, estudamos a primeira brecha e abordamos os Teoremas da Singularidade através da condição de energia. Revisamos a abordagem algébrica de Teoria Quântica de Campos para o campo de Klein-Gordon e, neste formalismo, revisamos a derivação de uma desigualdade quântica de energia para os estados de Hadamard em espaços-tempos globalmente hiperbólicos. Apesar das desigualdades quânticas de energia não poderem ser aplicadas diretamente nos Teoremas de Singularidade, mostramos que generalizações dos Teoremas de Hawking e Penrose são provadas considerando condições de energia enfraquecidas inspiradas por elas. Assim sendo, os Teoremas de Singularidade continuam valendo se considerarmos efeitos quânticos sutis. A questão de se efeitos de interação ou efeitos de ``backreaction\'\' poderiam quebrá-los ainda está em aberto; há razões para se esperar ambas as respostas. / There are two quantum loopholes in the Singularity Theorems of General Relativity: violations of the classical energy conditions and quantum fluctuations of the spacetime geometry. In this dissertation, we study the first loophole and approach Singularity Theorems through the energy condition. We review the algebraic approach of Quantum Field Theory for the Klein-Gordon field and, within it, we review the derivation of a quantum energy inequality for Hadamard states on globally hyperbolic spacetimes. However quantum energy inequalities cannot be directly applied to Singularity Theorems, we show that generalized Hawking and Penrose Theorems are proven considering weakened energy conditions inspired by them. Hence, Singularity Theorems do hold under subtle quantum effects. The question of whether interaction or backreaction effects could break them is still open; there are reasons to expect both answers.

O objeto de estudo desta dissertação é o efeito de criação de partículas pela curvatura sob o escopo de uma teoria de espalhamento, discutindo quando que a interpretação a partir de uma matriz S é tangível e obtendo sua expressão nesses casos. O capítulo de introdução aborda superficialmente conceitos de relatividade geral e de teoria quântica de campos em espaços planos e curvos, necessários para a construção da matriz S. O conteúdo deste capítulo segue as apresentações feitas por Wald, Parker e Birrell em geral, tendo como guia as obras de Bar, Wald e Hawking no que se trata especificamente de relatividade geral, e de Penrose e Rindler no que se trata da estrutura espinorial. A construção da matriz S se dá no capítulo 2, tendo como guia o trabalho de Wald. O capítulo 3 apresenta exemplos que permitem a contextualização da criação de partículas em casos específicos de espaços-tempos em expansão. Este estudo nos permite verificar que as condições que precisam ser satisfeitas em um espaço-tempo globalmente hiperbólico e assintoticamente estacionário para que a formulação da matriz S possa ser feita são que as teorias no passado e futuro distantes devem ser unitariamente equivalentes, que a relação entre as regiões se dá através de transformações de Bogolyubov dadas por operadores limitados definidos em toda a parte e que tais operadores satisfaçam a condição de Hilbert-Schmidt. Nestes casos obtemos uma expressão para a matriz $S$ que descreve a criação de partículas pela curvatura do espaço-tempo para o campo de Klein-Gordon e de Dirac, além de outras relações úteis, como número médio de partículas criadas e probabilidade de se encontrar partículas em determinado modo, o que permite uma analogia com a radiação de corpo negro, passo fundamental para se entender fenômenos de grande interesse na física, como a radiação de Hawking e a criação de partículas no período inflacionário. / This master\'s thesis deals with the effect of particle creation by the curvature of space-time according to the point of view of scattering theory, discussing when such interpretation is possible by means of an S-matrix and obtaining its expression in those cases. The first chapter treats, superficially, some concepts of general relativity and quantum field theory in plane and curved space-times that are imperative to understand the construction of the S-matrix. The subject of this chapter is covered in the work of Wald, Parker, and Birrell, and follows closely the work of Bar, Wald and Hawking, when treats concepts specifically from general relativity, and from Penrose and Rindler, when talking about the spinor structure of space-time. The construction of the S-matrix is made in the second chapter, along the lines of the work of Wald. The third chapter presents some examples that bring some light on the creation of particles in specific cases of expanding space-times. This study let us verify that an S-matrix formulation is tenable, on globally hyperbolic asymptotic stationary curved space-times, if both quantum theories in the distant past and distant future are unitary equivalent, the relation of both regions is made by Bogolyubov transformations by means of everywhere defined bounded operators and that those operators satisfy the Hilbert-Schmidt condition. In those cases we derive the expression of the S-matrix for the Klein-Gordon and Dirac fields. Also we obtain the number of particles created and the probability of find particles in a particular mode, with let one make an analogy with the black body radiation, which is a fundamental step in the direction of understanding interesting phenomena in quantum field theory in curved space-times, like the Hawking radiation and particle creation in the early universe.

A colisão de buracos negros é uma das fontes mais importantes de ondas gravitacionais e, em geral, a emissão anisotrópica da radiação causa um recuo do objeto final. Este cenário já é conhecido há décadas, mas foi somente com o recente avanço na relatividade numérica que as velocidades finais dos objetos radiantes foram computadas com precisão. Os valores encontrados podem ser altos o suficiente para exercerem um importante papel no crescimento de buracos negros super massivos via coleção de galáxias e na abundância de núcleos galáticos ativos contendo buracos negros. Este é um autêntico efeito da não linearidade de Relatividade Geral e esta tese fornece uma nova metodologia estudar alguns aspectos da dinâmica da colisão de buracos negros. Consideramos o horizonte como uma tela canônica que codifica as informações da evolução temporal do espaço-tempo. Com esta hipótese, fenômenos como o anti-kick, isto é, uma súbita desaceleração do sistema antes de atingir a velocidade final, são explicado em termos da dissipação das deformações do horizonte. Estudamos primeiramente o Espaço-tempo de Robinson-Trautman. Uma das solução mais simples das equações de Einstein, esta métrica nos fornece um poderoso modelo para investigar tanto a perda de massa quanto o recuo do objeto final. Mostramos que, quando as configurações iniciais tem simetria especular, a massa do buraco negro remanescente e a energia irradiada são completamente determinadas pela condição inicial. Com isso, obtemos as expressões analíticas dos resultados numéricos obtidos anteriormente na literatura. Além disto, com o auxilio do método espectral de Galerkin, analisamos o regime não linear das equações envolvidas e verificamos que se pode estimar a velocidade de recuo final com boa precisão a partir de medidas da assimetria da condição inicial. Introduzimos na seqüência a curvatura efetiva como uma medida das deformações intrínsecas ao horizonte. Além de considerar as deformações gerais, ela também inclui as diferenças entre os hemisférios norte e sul. No espaço-tempo de Robinson-Trautman, essa quantidade se correlaciona de uma forma injetora com a velocidade final. Para superar algumas limitações dessa solução, aplicamos o mesmo procedimento nos resultados da simulação numérica de uma colisão head-on. Neste caso, a curvatura efetiva, está na realidade, correlacionada com a aceleração do sistema. Refinamentos e generalizações desta técnica são também discutidos e propostos para trabalhos futuros. / Colliding black holes are one of the most important sources of gravitational waves and the anisotropic emission of the radiation generally causes the recoil of the final hole. This scenario has been known for decades, but it is only thanks to the recent progress in numerical relativity that the final velocity have been accurately computed. The values found can be large enough to play an important role in the growth of supermassive black holes via mergers of galaxies and on the number of galaxies containing them. This is a genuine nonlinear effect of general relativity and this thesis provides a new methodology to study some features on the dynamics of the collision. We propose that the horizon is a canonical screen, which encodes he information of its surroundings. With this assumption, phenomena such as the anti-kick, namely the sudden deceleration before reaching the final velocity, are explained in terms of the dissipation of the horizons deformation. We first study the Robinson-Trautman spacetime. One of the simplest solutions of Einsteins equations, it provides us with a powerful toymodel to investigate both the mass loss of the system and the recoil of the final object. We show that, for the case of reflectionsymmetric initial configurations, the mass of the remnant black-hole and the total energy radiated away are completely determined by the initial data, allowing us to obtain analytical expressions for some numerical results that had appeared in the literature. Moreover, by using the Galerkin spectral method to analyze the non-linear regime of the equations involved, we found that the recoil velocity can be estimated with good accuracy from some symmetry measures of the initial data. Then we introduce the effective urvature as a measure of intrinsic deformations on the horizon. Not only does it account for overall deformation, but also for the differences on the north and south hemispheres. In the Robinson-Trautman spacetime, this quantity correlates in an injective way with the final velocity. To overcome some caveats of this solutions, we apply the same procedure to the results given by numerical simulations of a head-on collision. In the case, the effective curvature is actually correlated with the acceleration of the system. Further improvement and generalizations of this technic is also discussed and proposed for future work.

The present-day interest in gravitational waves, justified by the recent direct detections made by LIGO, is opening the exciting possibility to answer many questions regarding General Relativity in extreme situations. One of these questions is whether black hole are – indeed – described totally by their mass, charge and angular momentum or whether they can have additional long-range hair. This project is concerned with this question. We aim at studying the influence of additional structure on the black hole horizon in the form of long-range hair by studying linearized Einstein equation the solutions when perturbed. More precisely, we will study the Schwarzschild solution, pierced by an infinitely long and thin cosmic string such that the space-time possesses a global deficit angle. Quasi-normal modes are believed to dominate the gravitational wave emission during the ring down phase of an excited black hole that would e.g. be the result of a merger of two ultra-compact objects, therefore linearized perturbations can be considered. With the advent of gravitational wave astronomy the proposed study will be very important when reconstructing the source of the detected gravitational wave signals. / O atual interesse em ondas gravitacionais, justificado pelas detecções diretas feitas pela colaboração LIGO recentemente, está abrindo a excitante possibilidade de responder várias questões a respeito da Relatividade Geral em condições estremas. Uma dessas questões é se buracos negros são – realmente – totalmente discritos apenas por sua massa, carga e momento angular ou se eles podem ter os chamados cabelos de longo alcance adicionais. Nosso projeto se preocupa em responder esta pergunta. Nosso objetivo está em estudar a influência de uma estrutura adicional no horizonte de eventos de um buraco negro através do comportamento da equação linearizada de Einstein quando a solução é perturbada. Mais precisamente, nós estudaremos a solução de Schwarzschild atravessada por uma corda cósmica infinitamente fina, tal corda faz com que o espaço-tempo tenha um hiato angular em seu plano equatorial. Acredita-se que modos quasi-normais dominem a emissão de ondas gravitacionais durante a fase de ringing down de buracos negros excitados que podem, por exemplo, se originar da colisão de objetos ultra compactos, portanto perturbações lineares podem ser consideradas. Com o advento da astronomia através de ondas gravitacionais o estudo proposto será importante para que se possa reconstruir a origem de sinais detectados.