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In the standard Einstein's theory the exterior gravitational field of any static and axially symmetric stellar object can be described by means of a single function from which we obtain a metric into a four-dimensional space-time. In this…

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In this paper, we study rigidity problems between Lyapunov exponents along periodic orbits and geometric structures. More specifically, we prove that for a surface M without focal points, if the value of the Lyapunov exponents is constant…

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We present perturbative charged rotating 5D Einstein-Maxwell black holes with spherical horizon topology. The electric charge Q is the perturbative parameter, the perturbations being performed up to 4th order. The expressions for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-09 Francisco Navarro-Lerida

The light rings (LRs) topological charge (TC) of a spacetime measures the number of stable LRs minus the number of unstable LRs. It is invariant under smooth spacetime deformations obeying fixed boundary conditions. Asymptotically flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-22 Haroldo C. D. Lima Junior , Jian-Zhi Yang , Luís C. B. Crispino , Pedro V. P. Cunha , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

This research delves into the optical characteristics of stationary, spherically symmetric black holes. These black holes follow the Konoplya-Zhidenko deformation rule in arbitrary gravity theories. This research finds that the effects of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-28 Qiao Yue , Zhaoyi Xu , Meirong Tang

Astrophysical black holes are invariably embedded in matter environments whose gravitational influence can alter key strong-field features of the spacetime. In this work, we investigate the impact of spherically symmetric dark-matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-30 Dylan S. Fonseca , Caio F. B. Macedo , Mateus Malato Corrêa , Diego Rubiera-Garcia

In this paper, we investigate the Einstein-Hayward gravity coupled to a complex scalar field without self-interaction. Using numerical methods, we construct a class of Hayward boson star solutions and examine their fundamental properties as…

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In this article, we study the particle dynamics around a static and spherically symmetric Bardeen-Kiselev black hole (BK BH) which is a solution of the Einstein-non-linear Maxwell field equations along with a quintessential field. We…

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Maxwell's equations are invariant under both duality rotations and conformal transformations. Recently Bandos, Lechner, Sorokin, and Townsend have found a nonlinear generalisation of electrodynamics which possesses both of these symmetries.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-14 Daniel Flores-Alfonso , Blanca Angélica González-Morales , Román Linares , Marco Maceda

We consider a wide class of static spherically symmetric black holes of arbitrary dimension with a photon sphere (a hypersurface on which a massless particle can orbit the black hole on unstable circular null geodesics). This class includes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-20 Yves Décanini , Antoine Folacci , Bernard Raffaelli

We study the problem of stationary bi-axially symmetric solutions of the $5$-dimensional minimal supergravity equations. Essentially all possible solutions with nondegenerate horizons are produced, having the allowed horizon cross-sectional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-06 Aghil Alaee , Marcus Khuri , Hari Kunduri

We study $D$-dimensional charged static spherically symmetric black hole solutions in Gauss-Bonnet theory coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics defined as arbitrary functions of the field invariant and constrained by several physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 D. Rubiera-Garcia

We study the motion of particles in the background of a scalar-tensor theory of gravity in which the scalar field is kinetically coupled to the Einstein tensor and we present the null geodesic structure for asymptotically flat, AdS, and dS…

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Stationary black holes in 5-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory possess surprising properties. When considering the Chern-Simons coefficient $\lambda$ as a parameter, two critical values of $\lambda$ appear: the supergravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Jutta Kunz , Francisco Navarro-Lerida

We consider the classification of static near-horizon geometries of stationary extremal (not necessarily BPS) black hole solutions of five dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory coupled to a Chern-Simons term with coupling xi (with xi=1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-23 Hari K. Kunduri , James Lucietti

Previous work has shown that static multi-black hole solutions of higher-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory do not possess smooth horizons. We show that the lack of smoothness is worse than previously demonstrated. We consider solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-05 Graeme N. Candlish , Harvey S. Reall

We study solutions of Einstein equations with negative cosmological constant in five dimensions that describe black holes whose event horizons are homogeneous, anisotropic spaces. We focus on the case where the constant-time slices of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-30 Jose Figueroa , Gaston Giribet , Anibal Neira-Gallegos , Julio Oliva , Marcelo Oyarzo

For static black holes in Einstein gravity, if matter fields satisfy a few general conditions, we conjecture that three characteristic parameters about the spatial size of black holes, namely the outermost photon sphere area…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-20 Run-Qiu Yang , H. Lu

We study the nature of particle geodesics around a non-linear electrodynamic black hole (NLED-BH) inspired by the confinement of a heavy quark-antiquark system, which reduces to Maxwell's linear electrodynamics theory at the strong field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Hari Prasad Saikia , Mrinnoy M. Gohain , Kalyan Bhuyan

We study the completeness of light trajectories in certain spherically symmetric regular geometries found in Palatini theories of gravity threaded by non-linear (electromagnetic) fields, which makes their propagation to happen along…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-25 Merce Guerrero , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Diego Rubiera-Garcia