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Dynamical Tidal response of compact stars -- An EFT approach

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-03-16 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We apply the point particle EFT approach to a compact star to systematically compute dynamical tidal love numbers for various non-rotating compact objects, extending the treatment of {arXiv:2307.10391[hep-th], arXiv:2407.08327 [gr-qc]}. We calculate the scattering amplitude in Black Hole Perturbation Theory(BPHT) for \textit{arbitrary} non-rotating compact stars using the Mano-Suzuki-Takasugi(MST) method with non zero surface reflectivity and match it with that obtained from point particle EFT order by order in the low frequency expansion. This sets up a systematic framework for extracting the static and dynamical tidal love numbers(TLNs) to any order in the multipole expansion. In this paper, we employ the technique to compute the Next-to-Next-to Leading Order TLN upto a universal constant and its Renormalization Group equation for non-viscous Neutron stars and Neutron stars admixed with Bosonic or Fermionic dark matter.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2603.12331,
  title  = {Dynamical Tidal response of compact stars -- An EFT approach},
  author = {Gregory Jarequi and Soumodeep Mitra and Varun Vaidya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.12331},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

v1: 40 pages, 7 figures & 3 Tables. Supplementary Mathematica notebook

R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:17:26.117Z