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    Quasinormal modes of the charged black hole in Gauss-Bonnet gravity

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    The d-dimensional string generated gravity models lead to Einstein-Maxwell equations with quadratic order correction term called the Gauss-Bonnet term. We calculate the quasinormal modes for the d-dimensional charged black hole in the framework of this model. The quasinormal spectrum essentially depends upon the Gauss-Bonnet coupling parameter α\alpha which is related to the string scale, and is totally different from that for black holes derived from Einstein action. In particular, at large α\alpha the quasinormal modes are proportional to α\alpha, while as α\alpha goes to zero the qusinormal modes approach their Schwarzschild values. In contrary to Einstein theory black hole behavior, the damping rate of the charged GB black hole as a function of charge does not contain a chracteristic maximum, but instead the monotonic falling down is observed. In addition, there have been obtained an asymptotic formula for large multipole numbers.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables; misprints correcte

    Universality of Highly Damped Quasinormal Modes for Single Horizon Black Holes

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    It has been suggested that the highly damped quasinormal modes of black holes provide information about the microscopic quantum gravitational states underlying black hole entropy. This interpretation requires the form of the highly damped quasinormal mode frequency to be universally of the form: ωR=ln(l)kTBH\hbar\omega_R = \ln(l)kT_{BH}, where ll is an integer, and TBHT_{BH} is the black hole temperature. We summarize the results of an analysis of the highly damped quasinormal modes for a large class of single horizon, asymptotically flat black holes.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure, submitted to the proceedings of Theory CANADA 1, which will be published in a special edition of the Canadian Journal of Physic

    High overtones of Dirac perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole

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    Using the Frobenius method, we find high overtones of the Dirac quasinormal spectrum for the Schwarzschild black hole. At high overtones, the spacing for imaginary part of ωn\omega_{n} is equidistant and equals to ωn+1ωn=i/8M\Im{\omega_{n+1}}-\Im{\omega_{n}} =i/8M, (MM is the black hole mass), which is twice less than that for fields of integer spin. At high overtones, the real part of ωn\omega_{n} goes to zero. This supports the suggestion that the expected correspondence between quasinormal modes and Barbero-Immirzi parameter in Loop Quantum Gravity is just a numerical coincidence.Comment: 5 pages, Latex, 3 figures, Physical Review D.,at pres

    Scalar field evolution in Gauss-Bonnet black holes

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    It is presented a thorough analysis of scalar perturbations in the background of Gauss-Bonnet, Gauss-Bonnet-de Sitter and Gauss-Bonnet-anti-de Sitter black hole spacetimes. The perturbations are considered both in frequency and time domain. The dependence of the scalar field evolution on the values of the cosmological constant Λ\Lambda and the Gauss-Bonnet coupling α\alpha is investigated. For Gauss-Bonnet and Gauss-Bonnet-de Sitter black holes, at asymptotically late times either power-law or exponential tails dominate, while for Gauss-Bonnet-anti-de Sitter black hole, the quasinormal modes govern the scalar field decay at all times. The power-law tails at asymptotically late times for odd-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet black holes does not depend on α\alpha, even though the black hole metric contains α\alpha as a new parameter. The corrections to quasinormal spectrum due to Gauss-Bonnet coupling is not small and should not be neglected. For the limit of near extremal value of the (positive) cosmological constant and pure de Sitter and anti-de Sitter modes in Gauss-Bonnet gravity we have found analytical expressions.Comment: 10 pages, to be published in Phys. Rev.

    The Mystery of the Asymptotic Quasinormal Modes of Gauss-Bonnet Black Holes

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    We analyze the quasinormal modes of DD-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes with the Gauss-Bonnet correction in the large damping limit and show that standard analytic techniques cannot be applied in a straightforward manner to the case of infinite damping. However, by using a combination of analytic and numeric techniques we are able to calculate the quasinormal mode frequencies in a range where the damping is large but finite. We show that for this damping region the famous ln(3)\ln(3) appears in the real part of the quasinormal mode frequency. In our calculations, the Gauss-Bonnet coupling, α\alpha, is taken to be much smaller than the parameter μ\mu, which is related to the black hole mass.Comment: 12 pages and 5 figure

    The Highly Damped Quasinormal Modes of Extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om and Reissner-Nordstr\"om-de Sitter Black Holes

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    We analyze in detail the highly damped quasinormal modes of DD-dimensional extremal Reissner-Nordstro¨\ddot{\rm{o}}m and Reissner-Nordstro¨\ddot{\rm{o}}m-de Sitter black holes. We only consider the extremal case where the event horizon and the Cauchy inner horizon coincide. We show that, even though the topology of the Stokes/anti-Stokes lines in the extremal case is different than the non-extremal case, the highly damped quasinormal mode frequencies of extremal black holes match exactly with the extremal limit of the non-extremal black hole quasinormal mode frequencies.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figure

    Validity of the WKB Approximation in Calculating the Asymptotic Quasinormal Modes of Black Holes

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    In this paper, we categorize non-rotating black hole spacetimes based on their pole structure and in each of these categories we determine whether the WKB approximation is a valid approximation for calculating the asymptotic quasinormal modes. We show that Schwarzschild black holes with the Gauss-Bonnet correction belong to the category in which the WKB approximation is invalid for calculating these modes. In this context, we further discuss and clarify some of the ambiguity in the literature surrounding the validity conditions provided for the WKB approximation.Comment: 10 page

    Massive scalar field quasi-normal modes of higher dimensional black holes

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    We study quasinormal spectrum of massive scalar field in the DD-dimensional black hole background. We found the qualitatively different dependence on the field mass of the fundamental modes for D6D\geq6. The behaviour of higher modes is qualitatively the same for all DD. Thus for some particular values of mass (of the field and of the black hole) the spectrum has two dominating oscillations with a very long lifetime. Also we show that the asymptotically high overtones do not depend on the field mass. In addition, we present the generalisation of the Nollert improvement of the continued fraction technique for the numerical calculation of quasi-normal frequencies of DD-dimensional black holes.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures, misprints corrected, version to appear in Phys. Rev.

    A note on the quantization of a multi-horizon black hole

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    We consider the quasinormal spectrum of a charged scalar field in the (charged) Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime, which has two horizons. The spectrum is characterized by two distinct families of asymptotic resonances. We suggest and demonstrate the according to Bohr's correspondence principle and in agreement with the Bekenstein-Mukhanov quantization scheme, one of these resonances corresponds to a fundamental change of Delta A=4hbar ln2 in the surface area of the black-hole outer horizon. The second asymptotic resonance is associated with a fundamental change of Delta Atot=4hbar ln3 in the total area of the black hole (in the sum of the surface areas of the inner and outer horizons), in accordance with a suggestion of Makela and Repo.Comment: 6 page
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