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In this work, the quasinormal modes of a $5$-D black hole in Einstein Gauss-Bonnet Bumblebee theory of gravity have been investigated with the help of the Pad\'e averaged higher order WKB approximation method and the validity of Hod's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-16 Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi

Under spherical symmetry, we show that the weak cosmic censorship holds for the gravitational collapse of the Einstein-Maxwell-charged scalar field system. Namely, for this system, with generic initial data, the formed spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 Xinliang An , Hong Kiat Tan

Recently, it was argued in [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf126}, 031102 (2021)] that the WCCC can serve as a constraint to high-order effective field theories. However, we find there exists a key error in their approximate black hole solution. After…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-18 Jie Jiang , Aofei Sang , Ming Zhang

Gravitational radiation is an excellent field for testing theories of gravity in strong gravitational fields. The current observations on the gravitational-wave (GW) bursts by LIGO have already placed various constraints on the alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-14 Xing Zhang , Jiming Yu , Tan Liu , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

In this article we study weak gravitational lensing of regular Bardeen black hole which has scalar charge $g$ and mass $m.$ We investigate the angular position and magnification of non-relativistic images in two cases depending on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-07 Hossein Ghaffarnejad , Hassan Niad

Effective field theory methods suggest that some rather-general extensions of General Relativity include, or are mimicked by, certain higher-order curvature corrections, with coupling constants expected to be small but otherwise arbitrary.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-29 Vitor Cardoso , Masashi Kimura , Andrea Maselli , Leonardo Senatore

The fourth gravitational wave transient catalog~(GWTC-4) has enabled empirical probes of the theorized pair-instability gap in the higher end of the binary black hole~(BBH) mass-spectrum. In this letter, using flexibly parametrized models,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Anarya Ray , Vicky Kalogera

Effective field theories are constrained by the requirement that their constituents never move superluminally on non-trivial backgrounds. In this paper, we study time delays experienced by photons propagating on charged shockwave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-11 Sera Cremonini , Brian McPeak , Mohammad Moezzi , Muthusamy Rajaguru

Quantum gravitational corrections to black holes are studied in four and higher dimensions using a renormalisation group improvement of the metric. The quantum effects are worked out in detail for asymptotically safe gravity, where the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-05 Kevin Falls , Daniel F. Litim , Aarti Raghuraman

The effective field theory (EFT) concept provides a necessary tool for obtaining general predictions of low-energy theory valid below its unitarity-breaking scale (cutoff scale). Early Universe inflation and subsequent reheating could be a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Jiaxin Cheng , Anna Tokareva

We systematically examine the properties of null geodesics around an electrically charged, asymptotically flat black hole in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity, varying the electric charge of black hole and the coupling constant in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Hajime Sotani , Umpei Miyamoto

We describe space--time fluctuations by means of small fluctuations of the metric on a given background metric. From a minimally coupled Klein--Gordon equation we obtain within a weak-field approximation up to second order and an averaging…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ertan Göklü , Claus Lämmerzahl

We study the possibility of realizing a growth rate of matter density perturbations lower than that in General Relativity. Using the approach of the effective field theory of modified gravity encompassing theories beyond Horndeski, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Shinji Tsujikawa

We use the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) to investigate the impact of charge dequantization arising from non-local QED on the scale of non-locality of neutrinos. We find this scale to be <= 87 TeV, which could be probed in future colliders.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-08 Fayez Abu-Ajamieh , Nobuchika Okada , Sudhir K. Vempati

We explore black hole solutions and some of its physical properties in Einstein's theory in 4D, modified by a cubic gravity term and in the presence of non-linear electrodynamics. In the context of Effective Field Theories (EFT) and under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-22 Gustavo Gutierrez-Cano , Gustavo Niz

Exotic spacetimes often require violations of the weak energy condition (WEC), a feat that is difficult to achieve with realistic matter. We explore a conservative route to WEC violation within an effective field theory (EFT) by adding a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Tao Huang

The generalized uncertainty principle discloses a self-complete characteristic of gravity, namely the possibility of masking any curvature singularity behind an event horizon as a result of matter compression at the Planck scale. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-21 Maximiliano Isi , Jonas Mureika , Piero Nicolini

Tiny values for gauge couplings of dark photons allow to suppress their kinetic mixing with ordinary photons. We point out that the Weak Gravity Conjecture predicts consequently low ultraviolet cut-offs where new degrees of freedom might…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Karim Benakli , Carlo Branchina , Gaëtan Lafforgue-Marmet

It is well known that a rotating black hole in four dimension could be overspun by linear order test particle accretion which however always gets overturned when non-linear perturbations are included. It turns out that in the Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-04 Sanjar Shaymatov , Naresh Dadhich

In models of minicharged dark matter associated with a hidden $U(1)$ symmetry, astrophysical black holes may acquire a "dark" charge, in such a way that the inspiral dynamics of binary black holes can be formally described by an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Pawan Kumar Gupta , Thomas F. M. Spieksma , Peter T. H. Pang , Gideon Koekoek , Chris Van Den Broeck