Near-extremal black holes in Weyl gravity: Quasinormal modes and geodesic instability

Abstract

Stability criteria of nearly extreme black holes in the perturbations level is one of the interesting issues in gravitational systems. Considering the nearly extreme conformal-de Sitter black holes, in this paper, we obtain an exact relation for the quasinormal modes of scalar perturbations. As for stability criteria, we find a lower bound on the event horizon radius which is corresponding to an upper bound on the value of the quasinormal frequencies. In addition, we show that the asymptotic behavior of quasinormal modes gives highly damped modes which is important due to possible connection between their real part and the Barbero-Immirzi parameter. We also obtain the Lyapunov exponent and the angular velocity of unstable circular null geodesics. Finally, we examine the validity of the relation between calculated quasinormal modes and unstable circular null geodesics.