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Geodesic flows on a black-hole background

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-03-04 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A recent notion of geodesic flows which comes out of noncommutative geometry but which is also novel in the classical case is studied in detail for a Schwarzschild spacetime. In this framework, the geodesic velocity field is an independent concept which then defines the flow of a density ρ\rho on spacetime or possibly that of an amplitude wave function ψ\psi with ρ=ψ2\rho = |\psi|^2. The proper time flow parameter ss is generated collectively by the flow of matter. We show carefully how the ρ\rho evolution can be justified as modelling a large number of geodesics interpolated as a local density. Using Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates, we show that there are no issues crossing the horizon. A novel feature is that whereas two colliding Gaussian bumps in density ρ\rho merge into a single bump, two colliding wave function ψ\psi bumps of opposite phase merge into a dipole with a different density ψ2|\psi|^2 profile, providing a potential test of our wave-function hypothesis. We also revisit the Klein-Gordon flow or pseudo-quantum mechanics around a black-hole and find that previously found black-hole atom states and modes generated at the horizon when an area of disturbance approaches it are also present inside the black-hole in a reflected fashion. We argue that the behaviour of the horizon modes across the horizon as well as discretisation of the atomic spectrum depend on quantum gravity corrections at the horizon.

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@article{arxiv.2603.03222,
  title  = {Geodesic flows on a black-hole background},
  author = {Kaushlendra Kumar and Shahn Majid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.03222},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

30 pages and 18 figures with multiple subfigures

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