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

Abstract

We study quasinormal spectrum of massive scalar field in the $D$-dimensional black hole background. We found the qualitatively different dependence on the field mass of the fundamental modes for $D\geq6$. The behaviour of higher modes is qualitatively the same for all $D$. 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 $D$-dimensional black holes.