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Debanjan Debnath

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arXiv2026

A Potential Black Hole Mimicker From Non-Minimal Coupling

We present a class of horizonless, regular ultra-compact objects arising in a theory of gravity which allows curvature-fluid coupling. The non-minimal interaction between fluid variables and the Ricci scalar generates a vacuum-like equation of state in the interior, while the exterior remains exactly Schwarzschild. The two spacetimes are glued through a shell at the junction. The interior metric is non-singular, the shell acquires a stiff-matter equation of state, and near-horizon compactness can potentially mimic black-hole phenomenology without event horizons. Unlike the Mazur-Mottola gravastar and its variants, the present model naturally selects a typical ultra-compact mass-radius window, with masses in the range $1.4$-$2.1 M_\odot$ and radii in the range 5-7 km. This framework predicts a unique geometric-thermodynamic shell temperature in the ultra-compact limit distinctly different from the Hawking expression and the other unique observational feature of the model is the prediction of mass independent luminosity.

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arXiv2026

Junction Conditions and Gravitational Collapse in Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity

We formulate the junction conditions for Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity (STVG/MOG), proposed by J.~W.~Moffat. Using these conditions, the theory of gravitational collapse is constructed. In the collapsing process, an interior Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime with baryonic matter and dark energy is matched with an exterior static, spherically symmetric Reissner--Nordstr\"{o}m (RN)-like spacetime through a shell that carries STVG-charge. Starting from the standard STVG action, we derive the junction conditions across a boundary that relate the values of the various field quantities and their derivatives across the matching surface. Using the matching conditions and the nature of the collapsing shell, it is shown that a gravitational collapse can proceed in the present situation, and one can have RN-like horizon formation in finite proper time. We present two simplified models of gravitational collapse in this article: one ends up as an extremal RN-like black hole, and the other tends to collapse towards a sub-extremal RN-like black hole, as observed by an asymptotic observer at an infinite distance away from the collapsing system.

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arXiv2025

Spherically Symmetric, Static Solutions in Presence of Matter-Curvature Coupling

In this work we have proposed some spherically symmetric, static spacetimes in a theory of gravity which permits non-minimal coupling (NMC) between curvature of spacetime and fluid variables. It is shown that these non-minimally coupled theories may admit of new class of metric solutions. Known metric solutions from GR can also be solutions of the non-minimally coupled theories, for these cases the NMC affects the nature of the fluid which sources the spacetime. The paper presents multiple ways in which the modified field equations appearing in non-minimally coupled theories can be solved. The NMC produces multiple definitions of the stress-energy tensor. The paper discusses the complexity related to these sources of curvature as, unlike in minimally coupled general relativity, in the present theory the Ricci curvature itself can affect the stress-energy tensor of the effective fluid which seeds spacetime curvature. The various energy conditions related to various forms of possible stress-energy tensors are presented in the paper.

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arXiv2024

End equilibrium state of a spherical gravitational collapse in the presence of matter and scalar field

We explore the possibilities of modeling a spherically symmetric static spacetime that can emerge as the end state of gravitational collapse, by considering it to be seeded by a composite fluid made of matter and a scalar field. In this scenario, the matter represents dark matter, while the scalar field represents dark energy. On certain scales, dark energy is believed to significantly influence the structure formation of dark matter. Various models describe the possible impacts of dark energy on structure formation under different scenarios. By investigating an inhomogeneous scalar field representing dark energy, coupled with dark matter, we demonstrate that this two-component fluid can seed spacetimes forming the final equilibrium state. We derive solutions for the scalar field and potential for Joshi-Malafarina-Narayan (JMN) spacetimes.

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