Spectral Bifurcations in Quasinormal Modes of Regular BTZ Black Holes

Abstract

We study the quasinormal spectrum of massless scalar fields propagating on a family of regular BTZ black holes arising from an infinite tower of dimensionally regularized Lovelock corrections. These geometries are asymptotically AdS, reduce to the standard BTZ solution in the limit $\ell \to 0$, and resolve the central singularity by introducing a smooth core controlled by the new length scale $\ell$. The scalar quasinormal modes are computed using both Leaver's continued-fraction method and the Horowitz-Hubeny power-series method; the two approaches agree to high accuracy across the parameter space. We find that the regularization preserves linear stability (${\omega }_I<0$) while qualitatively reshaping the spectrum: as $\ell$ increases, BTZ-like complex branches collide with the imaginary axis and undergo a hierarchy of bifurcations into multiple purely imaginary branches, leading to mode switching and a nontrivial reordering of overtones as functions of $\ell$ and the harmonic index $m$. Our results place regular BTZ black holes within the emerging family of bifurcating quasinormal spectra known from nearly extremal and asymptotically AdS black holes, and highlight these $(2+1)$-dimensional geometries as a controlled arena for exploring geometric mechanisms behind spectral branching and late-time ringdown in regular black hole spacetimes.

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