From Ringdown to Lensing: Analytic Eikonal Modes of Quasi-Topological Regular Black Holes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2026-04-16 v1
Abstract
We develop an analytic eikonal description of perturbations for four-dimensional regular black holes in quasi-topological gravity. Using first-order Schutz--Will WKB together with a small-coupling expansion and a large- expansion, we obtain closed quasinormal-mode formulas with explicit dependence on the black-hole parameters . We then map the same geodesic invariants to shadow and strong-lensing observables, deriving an explicit QNM--shadow--lensing correspondence. In this way, ringdown frequencies, shadow scale, and strong-deflection observables are unified in one analytic scheme for this quasi-topological family.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.13613,
title = {From Ringdown to Lensing: Analytic Eikonal Modes of Quasi-Topological Regular Black Holes},
author = {Alexey Dubinsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.13613},
year = {2026}
}