ar X iv : h ep - t h / 04 10 05 7 v 3 1 9 O ct 2 00 4 Quasinormal modes of the charged black hole in Gauss - Bonnet gravity

The d-dimensional string generated gravity models lead to Einstein-Maxwell equations with quadratic order correction term called the Gauss-Bonnet term. We calculate the quasinormal modes for the d-dimensional charged black hole in the framework of this model. The quasinormal spectrum essentially depends upon the Gauss-Bonnet coupling parameter α which is related to the string scale, and is totally different from that for black holes derived from Einstein action. In particular, at large α the quasinormal modes are proportional to α, while as α goes to zero the qusinormal modes approach their Schwar-zschild values. In contrary to Einstein theory black hole behavior, the damping rate of the charged GB black hole as a function of charge does not contain a chracteristic maximum, but instead the monotonic falling down is observed. In addition, there have been obtained an asymptotic formula for large multipole numbers.