Lensing Fingerprints of Scalar Hair and Broken Symmetries via Three Semi-Analytical Methods
Abstract
We present a detailed derivation of the weak-field deflection of light in the scalar hairy black hole spacetime with scalar charge and bumblebee gravity black hole spacetime, characterized by a Lorentz-violating parameter . Starting from the metric, we derive the photon orbit equation up to second order in the small parameters , or . Then we derive the weak-field deflection angle via three independent semi-analytical techniques- (1) Homotopy-Perturbation Method, (2) Variational Iteration Method, (3) Single-Impulse (Transverse-Kick) Method-are each applied in full detail. We demonstrate exact agreement among these approaches and discuss their relative computational efficiencies, thereby offering diverse tools for lensing calculations in spherically symmetric spacetimes.
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@article{arxiv.2507.16512,
title = {Lensing Fingerprints of Scalar Hair and Broken Symmetries via Three Semi-Analytical Methods},
author = {Ali Övgün and Reggie C. Pantig},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.16512},
year = {2025}
}
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27 pages. Comments are welcome