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Tidal Love numbers (TLNs) characterize the response of compact objects to external tidal fields and vanish for classical Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes in general relativity. Nonvanishing TLNs therefore provide a potential observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 Rui Wang , Qi-Long Shi , Wei Xiong , Peng-Cheng Li

We study the tidal deformability of horizonless exotic compact objects, with implications for area quantized black holes. Since, any such horizonless compact object, including area quantized black hole, possesses a non-zero reflectivity, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-05 Sreejith Nair , Sumanta Chakraborty , Sudipta Sarkar

We elaborate on a powerful tidal interaction formalism where the multipole dynamics is kept generic and encoded in a linear response function. This response function is the gravitational counterpart of the atomic spectrum and can become of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-22 Sayan Chakrabarti , Térence Delsate , Jan Steinhoff

Fermion soliton stars are a consistent model of exotic compact objects which involve a nonlinear interaction between a real scalar field and fermions through a Yukawa term. This interaction results in an effective fermion mass that depends…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-07 Emanuele Berti , Valerio De Luca , Loris Del Grosso , Paolo Pani

Dynamical Love numbers capture the conservative response of an object to a time-dependent external tidal gravitational field. We compute the dynamical Love numbers of Schwarzschild black holes in general relativity within a point-particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-19 Oscar Combaluzier--Szteinsznaider , Daniel Glazer , Austin Joyce , Maria J. Rodriguez , Luca Santoni

The deformability of a compact object induced by a perturbing tidal field is encoded in the tidal Love numbers, which depend sensibly on the object's internal structure. These numbers are known only for static, spherically-symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-01 Paolo Pani , Leonardo Gualtieri , Andrea Maselli , Valeria Ferrari

The response of a gravitating object to an external tidal field is encoded in its Love numbers, which identically vanish for classical blackholes (BHs). Here we show, using standard time-independent quantum perturbation theory, that for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-20 Ram Brustein , Yotam Sherf

It is well established that black holes in four-dimensional, vacuum, general relativity exhibit vanishing static tidal Love numbers, indicating no multipolar response to the external tidal fields in the static limit. This intriguing feature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-09 Chiranjeeb Singha , Sumanta Chakraborty

Tidal interactions play a crucial role in deciphering gravitational wave signals emitted by the coalescence of binary systems. They are usually quantified by a set of complex coefficients which include tidal Love numbers, describing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-10 Valerio De Luca , Alice Garoffolo , Justin Khoury , Mark Trodden

We show that rotating black holes do not experience any tidal deformation when they are perturbed by a weak and adiabatic gravitational field. The tidal deformability of an object is quantified by the so-called "Love numbers", which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-14 Horng Sheng Chia

We derive the response, the real part of which provides the tidal Love numbers, for non-extremal as well as extremal Kerr black holes under generic tidal perturbations. Our results suggest that the static as well as dynamical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-30 Rajendra Prasad Bhatt , Sumanta Chakraborty , Sukanta Bose

A well-known result in general relativity is that the tidal Love numbers of black holes vanish. In contrast, different configurations to a black hole may have non-vanishing Love numbers. For instance, it has been conjectured recently that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Camilo Posada

One of the macroscopically measurable effects of gravity is the tidal deformability of astrophysical objects, which can be quantified by their tidal Love numbers. For planets and stars, these numbers measure the resistance of their material…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-25 Cecilia Chirenti , Camilo Posada , Victor Guedes

We examine the tidal deformation of a nonrotating compact body (material body or black hole) in general relativity. The body's exterior metric is calculated in a simultaneous expansion in powers of the ratio between the distance to the body…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-24 Eric Poisson

Gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences are valuable for testing theories of gravity in the strong field regime. By measuring neutron star tidal deformability using gravitational waves from binary neutron stars, stringent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-21 Stephanie M. Brown

The tidal interaction of a (rotating or nonrotating) black hole with nearby bodies produces changes in its mass, angular momentum, and surface area. Similarly, tidal forces acting on a Newtonian, viscous body do work on the body, change its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Eric Poisson

Black holes are believed to possess vanishing Love numbers, which implies that they do not deform in the presence of external tides. This fact has been verified in a number of scenarios, that involve tides of bosonic fields of various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 David Pereñiguez , Edgars Karnickis

An important physical phenomenon that manifests itself during the inspiral of two orbiting compact objects is the tidal deformation of each under the gravitational influence of its companion. In the case of binary neutron star mergers, this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-22 Vaishak Prasad , Anshu Gupta , Sukanta Bose , Badri Krishnan

The response of a black hole (BH) to tidal forces encodes key information about the underlying gravitational theory and affects the waveform of gravitational waves emitted during binary inspiral processes. In this paper, we analyze the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-08 Hajime Kobayashi , Shinji Mukohyama , Naritaka Oshita , Kazufumi Takahashi , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

The coupling between the angular momentum of a compact object and an external tidal field gives rise to the "rotational" tidal Love numbers, which affect the tidal deformability of a spinning self-gravitating body and enter the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-25 Gonçalo Castro , Leonardo Gualtieri , Paolo Pani