Quasinormal modes of Schwarzschild--AdS black holes with a near-horizon reflective surface
Abstract
We investigate the scalar quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum of Schwarzschild-AdS black holes with a partially reflective surface placed near the event horizon. The corresponding QNM problem is solved numerically using Chebyshev spectral collocation. The resulting spectra exhibit a characteristic cavity structure at sufficiently large real part, where the modes form approximately equally spaced sequences whose spacing and damping are controlled mainly by the cavity length and the surface reflectivity. For large AdS radius, an additional weakly damped quasibound-state branch appears due to trapping between the centrifugal barrier and the AdS potential wall. We show that these spectral features can be understood within a finite radial cavity picture. A WKB analysis provides a quantitative asymptotic description of the spectra which have high real parts. We find that changes in the near-horizon boundary condition can lead to substantial changes in the QNM spectrum, indicating the strong sensitivity of Schwarzschild--AdS QNMs to the effect of horizon correction.
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BibTeX
@misc{xie2026quasinormal,
title = {{Quasinormal modes of Schwarzschild--AdS black holes with a near-horizon reflective surface}},
author = {Libo Xie and Liang-Bi Wu and Yu-Sen Zhou and Xi-Ning Dong and Zong-Kuan Guo and Rong-Gen Cai},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.20382},
eprint = {2609.20382},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20382},
note = {CC0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Quasinormal modes of Schwarzschild--AdS black holes with a near-horizon reflective surface
AU - Libo Xie
AU - Liang-Bi Wu
AU - Yu-Sen Zhou
AU - Xi-Ning Dong
AU - Zong-Kuan Guo
AU - Rong-Gen Cai
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/17
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.20382
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20382
AB - We investigate the scalar quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum of Schwarzschild-AdS black holes with a partially reflective surface placed near the event horizon. The corresponding QNM problem is solved numerically using Chebyshev spectral collocation. The resulting spectra exhibit a characteristic cavity structure at sufficiently large real part, where the modes form approximately equally spaced sequences whose spacing and damping are controlled mainly by the cavity length and the surface reflectivity. For large AdS radius, an additional weakly damped quasibound-state branch appears due to trapping between the centrifugal barrier and the AdS potential wall. We show that these spectral features can be understood within a finite radial cavity picture. A WKB analysis provides a quantitative asymptotic description of the spectra which have high real parts. We find that changes in the near-horizon boundary condition can lead to substantial changes in the QNM spectrum, indicating the strong sensitivity of Schwarzschild--AdS QNMs to the effect of horizon correction.
ER -