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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-\ell expansion, we obtain closed quasinormal-mode formulas with explicit dependence on the black-hole parameters (M,μ,ν,α)(M,\mu,\nu,\alpha). We then map the same geodesic invariants (Ωph,λph)(\Omega_{\text{ph}},\lambda_{\text{ph}}) 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.

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@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}
}