Abstract
We compute the quasinormal modes associated with the decay of the massless scalar field around a small Schwarzschild–anti-de Sitter black hole. The computations show that when the horizon radius is much less than the anti–de Sitter radius, the imaginary part of the frequency goes to zero as while the real part of decreases to its minimum and then goes to Thus the quasinormal modes approach the usual AdS modes in the limit This agrees with suggestions of Horowitz and Hubeny [Phys. Rev. D 62, 024027 (2000)].
- Received 16 May 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.66.044009
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