Motivated by recent suggestions that highly damped black hole quasinormal modes (QNM's) may provide a link between classical general relativity and quantum gravity, we present an extensive computation of highly damped QNM's of Kerr black holes. We perform the computation using two independent numerical codes based on Leaver's continued fraction method. We do not limit our attention to gravitational modes, thus filling some gaps in the existing literature. As already observed by Berti and Kokkotas, the frequency of gravitational modes with l=m=2 tends to omega(R)=2Omega, Omega being the angular velocity of the black hole horizon. We show that, if Hod's conjecture is valid, this asymptotic behavior is related to reversible black hole transformations. Other highly damped modes with m>0 that we computed do not show a similar behavior. The real part of modes with l=2 and m<0 seems to asymptotically approach a constant value omega(R)similar or equal to-mpi, pisimilar or equal to0.12 being (almost) independent of a. For any perturbing field, trajectories in the complex plane of QNM's with m=0 show a spiraling behavior, similar to the one observed for Reissner-Nordstrom black holes. Finally, for any perturbing field, the asymptotic separation in the imaginary part of consecutive modes with m>0 is given by 2piT(H) (T-H being the black hole temperature). We conjecture that for all values of l and m>0 there is an infinity of modes tending to the critical frequency for superradiance (omega(R)=m) in the extremal limit. Finally, we study in some detail modes branching off the so-called algebraically special frequency of Schwarzschild black holes. For the first time we find numerically that QNM multiplets emerge from the algebraically special Schwarzschild modes, confirming a recent speculation.
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