Luís Felipe Reis, Mario C Baldiotti and Orfeu Bertolami
{"title":"Accretion of generalized Chaplygin gas onto cosmologically coupled black holes","authors":"Luís Felipe Reis, Mario C Baldiotti and Orfeu Bertolami","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae5b18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae5b18","url":null,"abstract":"We study the accretion of cosmic dark fluids, responsible for driving the accelerated expansion of the Universe, onto cosmologically coupled black holes. More specifically, we focus on the accretion of the generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG). To incorporate the global features of the GCG into this analysis, we employ the McVittie metric, which describes a black hole embedded in an expanding cosmological background. Within this framework, accretion is studied while consistently accounting for the backreaction on the metric components. Using a perturbative approach, we derive an expression for the effective black hole mass and for the evolution of both the black hole and cosmological apparent horizons under accretion. The analysis is performed in two distinct cosmological regimes: first, a matter-dominated era, and subsequently, a de Sitter era. In both cases, it is possible to determine analytically the instant in which accretion begins. For the matter-dominated era, the analytical expression shows that the greater the amount of matter available for accretion, the longer the accretion takes to start.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147664136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ADDENDUM: Low regularity approach to Bartnik’s conjecture (2025 Class. Quantum Grav. 42 215020)","authors":"José L Flores, Jonatan Herrera and Didier A Solis","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae5867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae5867","url":null,"abstract":"This note serves as an addendum to our previous work (Flores et al 2025 Class. Quantum Grav.42 215020), where the Bartnik Splitting Conjecture (BSC) was first established for globally hyperbolic Lorentzian length spaces. Here, we strengthen and generalize that result by removing the assumption of a global topological product structure, which is not intrinsic in the setting of Lorentzian length spaces. Instead, we only require the existence of a compact Cauchy set. Consequently, there is no hypothesis on the asymptotic behaviour of vertical curves—whose existence is now obtained a posteriori—but rather the more natural timelike geodesic completeness condition is assumed. This refinement (theorem 1.2) yields a stronger and more flexible version of the BSC, extending its applicability and bringing it closer to its smooth counterpart.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147664576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shivam Kumar Mishra, Jackson Levi Said and B Mishra
{"title":"Gauge invariant perturbations of F ( T , ...","authors":"Shivam Kumar Mishra, Jackson Levi Said and B Mishra","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae59e5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae59e5","url":null,"abstract":"The Gauss–Bonnet invariant connects foundational aspects of geometry with physical phenomena in a variety of ways. Teleparallel gravity (TG) offers a novel direction in which to use the Gauss–Bonnet invariant to go beyond standard cosmology. In this work, we explore the cosmological perturbations of TG generalized through the Gauss–Bonnet invariant. This is crucial in understanding the viability of these models beyond background analyses. We do this by taking a gauge-invariant approach, followed by popular gauge choices. It is essential to take this approach to understand the stability and healthiness of the underlying theory. We determine the equations of motion for all perturbative modes and provide a physical interpretation of the new contributions for each mode.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147664135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Probing modified gravitational-wave dispersion with bursts from eccentric black-hole binaries","authors":"Nicholas Loutrel, Ava Bailey and Davide Gerosa","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae59e4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae59e4","url":null,"abstract":"Gravitational waves in general relativity are non-dispersive, yet a host of modified theories predict dispersion effects during propagation. In this work, we consider the impact of dispersion effects on gravitational-wave bursts from highly eccentric binary black holes. We consider the dispersion effects within the low-energy, effective field theory limit, and model the dispersion relation via standard parameterized deformations. Such modified dispersion relations produce two modifications to the burst waveform: a modification to the time of arrival of the bursts in the detector, which appears as a 2.5PN correction to the difference in burst arrival times, and a modification to the arrival time of individual orbital harmonics within the bursts themselves, resulting in a Bessel-type amplitude modulation of the waveform. Using the Fisher information matrix, we study projected constraints one might obtain with future observations of repeating burst signals with LIGO. We find that the projected constraints vary significantly depending on the theoretical mechanism producing the modified dispersion. For massive gravitons and multifractional spacetimes that break Lorentz invariance, bounds on the coupling parameters are generally weaker than current bounds. For other Lorentz invariance breaking models such as Hořava–Lifschitz gravity, as well as scenarios with extra dimensions, the bounds in optimal cases can be 1–3 orders of magnitude stronger than current bounds.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147664546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"q-deformed quantum mechanics and the thermodynamics of black hole/white hole spectral pair","authors":"S Jalalzadeh, R Jalalzadeh and H Moradpour","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae59e8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae59e8","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we investigate the thermodynamics of Schwarzschild black and white holes within a q-deformed Wheeler–DeWitt framework. By introducing a q-deformed Heisenberg–Weyl algebra at a root of unity, we derive a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, a bounded mass spectrum, and an adiabatic invariant leading to a bounded entropy-mass relation. The deformation results in a universal logarithmic correction, as well as a minimum temperature and a maximum entropy that matches the de Sitter bound. Also, we examine the interpretation of a cold remnant, which is dynamically stable because its radiation rate approaches zero, even though its heat capacity remains negative. We also explore the holographic implications of this limited entropy. Our results thus provide a consistent semiclassical picture, where quantum deformation naturally introduces an entropy bound, avoids divergences at the final evaporation stage, and suggests a smooth transition from quantum gravity to cosmology.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147642094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Topological charge and black hole photon spheres in massive gravity","authors":"Pavan Kumar Yerra and Chandrasekhar Bhamidipati","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae5750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae5750","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the existence and nature of the photon spheres (PS) in the background of four dimensional static and spherically symmetric black holes in the de Rham–Gabadadze–Tolley massive gravity theory. Apart from the known case of one PS, there are regions in the parameter space of massive gravity where either two or no PS’s exist outside the event horizon. Topological arguments show that, the case of one PS falls in the category of Einstein gravity (with topological charge −1) (Wei 2020 Phys. Rev. D102 064039), whereas, the cases with two or zero PS’s belong to a different topological class with total charge zero. PS’s of horizonless compact objects, also belong to the same class with total topological charge 0 (Cunha et al 2017 Phys. Rev. Lett.119 251102; Cunha and Herdeiro 2020 Phys. Rev. Lett.124 181101), though, one distinction can be made with the black holes in massive gravity. While in the former case, the inner PS is stable, in the later case, it is the outer PS which is stable (the inner PS is unstable). We also study the landscape of possible regions of existence of standard and exotic PS in the massive gravity parameter space, and correlate it with the horizon structure of the black holes.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147635827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blueshift of light rays induced by gravitational wave memory effect","authors":"F L Carneiro, S C Ulhoa and J W Maluf","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae59e7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae59e7","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with photon propagation in pp-wave spacetimes in the strong gravitational-wave regime and its consequences for redshift measurements. We show that null geodesics crossing a localized pp-wave pulse exhibit an energy memory effect, producing a finite asymptotic shift in the photon frequency measured by static observers. This path-dependent contribution acts directly on the redshift observable and may help account for divergent interpretations of supernova redshift data in the presence of intervening gravitational radiation.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147630763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From a collapsing radiating star to an evaporating black hole: a smooth transition from classical to quantum entropy","authors":"Sarbari Guha, Shamima Khan and Rituparno Goswami","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae59e6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae59e6","url":null,"abstract":"We present a robust mechanism, where the geometrical free-gravitational entropy of an isolated astrophysical radiating star undergoing continual gravitational collapse (where gravity dominates over all other fundamental forces), as measured by an external observer, makes a smooth transition to the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy at the onset of the horizon formation and in the late times of black hole (BH) evaporation. It is interesting to note that both in the classical collapsing phase and the semi classical evaporating BH phase, the matter is radiated via the Vaidya exterior that surrounds the collapsing radiating star as well as the evaporating BH thus formed. As the entropy of a BH is several orders of magnitude greater than the ordinary thermodynamic entropy of the original star, so the BH entropy is basically independent of the nature of the interior matter. Therefore, our result, being independent of the interior matter dynamics of the collapsing star, clearly indicates that the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy and its non-extensive nature indeed originates from the Riemannian geometry, which dictates the free-gravity entropy in general relativity.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147630762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Path integral approach to black-hole evaporation and accretion","authors":"I Arraut and A K Mehta","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae5751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae5751","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate evaporation and accretion of uncharged, non-rotating, spherically symmetric black-holes from the path integral perspective. We show that the effective actions derived using the path integral techniques incorporate both accreting and evaporating configurations, thus presenting a novel methodology to study black-hole accretion and evaporation in 4D on the same footing. We specifically focus on evaporating configurations which deviate from the standard thermodynamic modes of black-hole evaporation.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147630761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of the tilt to length coefficient induced by wavefront error for the LISA interferometric test bench","authors":"Maxime Vincent, Romain Arguel and Hubert Halloin","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/ae4d9d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ae4d9d","url":null,"abstract":"Space-based gravitational wave detectors can be limited by a noise source arising from the coupling between interferometric beam jitter and the interferometer’s length readout. A significant optical property responsible for this coupling is the wavefront error, defined as distortions in the phase profile of the laser beam. In this paper, we investigate this tilt to length (TTL) coupling induced by wavefront errors by developing two independent simulation tools that employ different computational methods to quantify the coupling amplitude. We analyze the characteristics of distortion-induced TTL coupling and present the relationship between the magnitude of wavefront distortions—expressed through a Zernike polynomial decomposition—and the resulting coupling amplitude. These results provide critical specifications for the design of an optical test bench intended to experimentally verify the performance of the laser interferometer space antenna instrument on ground.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147625554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}