Quasinormal modes for integer and half-integer spins within the large angular momentum limit

While independent observations have been made regarding the behavior of effective quasinormal mode (QNM) potentials within the large angular momentum limit, we demonstrate analytically here that a uniform expression emerges for nonrotating, higher-dimensional, and spherically symmetric black holes (BHs) in this regime for fields of integer and half-integer spin in asymptotically flat and de Sitter BH contexts; a second uniform expression arises for these QNM potentials in anti-de Sitter BH spacetimes. We then proceed with a numerical analysis based on the multipolar expansion method recently proposed by Dolan and Ottewill to determine the behavior of quasinormal frequencies (QNFs) for varying BH parameters in the eikonal limit. We perform a complete study of Dolan and Ottewill's method for perturbations of spin s∈{0,1/2,1,3/2,2} in four-dimensional Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordström, and Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetimes, clarifying expressions and presenting expansions and results to higher orders [O(L-6)] than many of those presented in the literature [∼O(L-2)]. We find good agreement with known results of QNFs for low-lying modes; in the large-ℓ regime, our results are highly consistent with those of Konoplya's sixth-order WKB method. We confirm a universality in the trends of physical features recorded in the literature for the low-lying QNFs (that the real part grows indefinitely, the imaginary tends to a constant as ℓ→∞, etc.) as we approach large values of ℓ within these spacetimes, and explore the consequent interplay between BH parameters and QNFs in the eikonal limit.