RT Journal Article T1 Polar modes and isospectrality of Ellis-Bronnikov wormholes T2 Physica review D A1 Azad, Bahareh A1 Blázquez Salcedo, José Luis A1 Chew, Xiao Yan A1 Kunz, Jutta A1 Yeom, Dong-han AB We consider polar perturbations of static Ellis-Bronnikov wormholes and derive the coupled set of perturbation equations for the gravitational and the scalar field. For massless wormholes the perturbations decouple, and we obtain two identical master equations for the scalar and gravitational modes, which moreover agree with the master equation for the axial modes. Consequently there is isospectrality with threefold degenerate modes. For a finite mass of the background wormhole solutions, the equations are coupled. We then obtain two distinct branches of polar quasinormal modes for a given multipole number l, associated with the presence of the two types of fields. We calculate the quasinormal mode frequencies and decay rates for the branches with l = 2, 3 and 4. For a given l the real frequencies of the two branches get the closer, the higher the multipole number gets. PB American Physical Society SN 2470-0010 YR 2023 FD 2023-04-13 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/87397 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/87397 LA eng NO © 2023 American Physical SocietyB. A., J. K., and J. L. B. S. would like to gratefully acknowledge support by DAAD, the DFG Research Training Group 1620 Models of Gravity, DFG Project No. Ku612/18-1, FCT Project No. PTDC/FIS-AST/3041/2020, and MICINN Project No. PID2021-125617NB-I00 “QuasiMode”. J. L. B. S. gratefully acknowledges support from Santander-UCM Project No. PR44/21-29910. X. Y. C. andD. Y. are supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (Grants No. 2021R1C1C1008622 and No. 2021R1A4A5031460). We thank Fech Scen Khoo, Luis Manuel González-Romero, and Francisco Navarro-Lérida for discussions. NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) NO German Research Foundation (DFG) NO Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) NO National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) NO Banco de Santander/Universidad Complutense de Madrid DS Docta Complutense RD 1 sept 2024