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Lensing Fingerprints of Scalar Hair and Broken Symmetries via Three Semi-Analytical Methods

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-07-23 v1

Abstract

We present a detailed derivation of the weak-field deflection of light in the scalar hairy black hole spacetime with scalar charge QsQ_s and bumblebee gravity black hole spacetime, characterized by a Lorentz-violating parameter \ell. Starting from the metric, we derive the photon orbit equation up to second order in the small parameters M/bM/b, QsQ_s or \ell. 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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