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We examine in a semiclassical framework the deflection function of strong gravitational lensing, for static and spherically symmetric black holes, endowed with a photon sphere. From a first-order WKB analysis near the maximum of the…
We present analytic solutions to the Teukolsky equation for massless perturbations of any spin in the 4-dimensional de Sitter background. The angular part of the equation fixes the separation constant to a discrete set and its solution is…
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