Tidal Deformation Bounds and Perturbation Transfer in Bounded Curvature Spacetimes
Abstract
We derive two model-independent results for spacetimes with globally bounded tidal fields. These are operational resolution scales of the local-inertial approximation and tidal dynamics; no spacetime discreteness is implied. Given an invariant bound on the electric Riemann eigenvalues along freely falling worldlines, we prove (i)~a rigorous upper bound on accumulated geodesic deviation through any bounded curvature interior, controlled by , and (ii)~the existence of a critical wavenumber separating adiabatic from non-adiabatic perturbation transfer through high-curvature epochs, with Bogoliubov coefficients exponentially suppressed for . Both results depend only on the tidal bound (and, for mode transfer, on a mild timescale assumption for the curvature-driven effective potential) and are otherwise insensitive to metric details. For preparation, we collect the standard operational consequences of bounded curvature, including the accuracy-dependent local-inertial domain and, for conformally flat cores in four dimensions, the benchmark ratio with . We quantify the robustness of this coefficient under departures from maximal symmetry via the Weyl-to-Kretschmann ratio . The general framework is validated numerically in the extremal Hayward geometry.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.16285,
title = {Tidal Deformation Bounds and Perturbation Transfer in Bounded Curvature Spacetimes},
author = {Martin Drobczyk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.16285},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Revised after peer review; submitted to GRG, 17 pages, 4 figures