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Hocheol Lee

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arXiv2026

Phase transition for a black hole with matter fields and the relation with the Lyapunov exponent

We construct static black hole solutions coexisting with anisotropic matter in asymptotically (anti-)de Sitter spacetime and investigate how the matter field modifies their thermodynamic and dynamical properties. The anisotropic matter generates an exponentially decaying charge-like contribution to the metric, causing the geometry to interpolate between the Schwarzschild black hole in anti-de Sitter spacetime and the Reissner-Nordström black hole in anti-de Sitter spacetime. In anti-de Sitter black hole spacetime, we derive the complete thermodynamic description, including the Hawking temperature, heat capacity, Smarr relation, generalized first law, and Helmholtz free energy. The system exhibits a van der Waals-type small/large black hole phase transition with a critical point determined by the matter field parameters. Local thermodynamic stability is characterized by the heat capacity, whereas global stability is determined through the free energy. We further investigate unstable homoclinic orbits by evaluating the Lyapunov exponent associated with null geodesics. Our analysis reveals that different thermodynamic branches possess distinct dynamical instabilities, and that the thermodynamically preferred phase is accompanied by a smaller Lyapunov exponent. These results demonstrate that thermodynamic stability and geodesic instability are correlated because both originate from the same underlying spacetime geometry.

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arXiv2026

Chaotic behaviors of particles around the black hole with an anisotropic matter immersed in a magnetic field

We present an exact solution to the Einstein-Maxwell equations that describes a static black hole coexisting with anisotropic matter immersed in an external magnetic field, obtained via the Harrison transformation. Our findings reveal that an increase in the anisotropic matter parameter systematically suppresses the local chaotic behavior, as indicated by a reduction in the Lyapunov exponent. Conversely, variations in the external magnetic field lead to qualitative changes in global chaotic behavior. This is analyzed through Poincaré sections, which demonstrate transitions between regular and chaotic trajectories resulting from the nonlinear gravitational-magnetic interactions. These factors play distinct yet complementary roles in shaping chaotic particle dynamics around black holes. This study would offer a new theoretical framework for exploring non-integrable particle motion within magnetized black hole spacetimes and for probing a black hole at the galactic center, where magnetic fields may arise from plasma effects surrounding astrophysical black holes.

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arXiv2026

Phase Transitions with Lyapunov Exponents under Einstein and String Frames in Dilatonic Reissner--Nordström--AdS Black Holes

We investigate Lyapunov exponents as dynamical probes of black hole phase transitions in dilatonic Reissner--Nordström--AdS black holes within Einstein--Maxwell--dilaton theory. The thermodynamic quantities and the Lyapunov exponent of charged probe particles were analyzed in both the Einstein and string frames, thus providing a direct comparison between the thermodynamic phase structure of the black hole and that captured by the Lyapunov exponent. Thermodynamic quantities, including the Hawking temperature and Wald entropy, remained constant under conformal frame transformations, yielding identical phase structures in the two frames. In contrast, the Lyapunov exponent exhibited non-trivial frame dependence for massive probe particles due to dilaton coupling, while no frame dependence was found in the massless limit. Numerical analysis revealed that the phase structure features captured by the Lyapunov exponent, including characteristic cusp behavior and transition points, were independent of the choice of frame, despite the Lyapunov exponent itself being frame-dependent. Therefore, the Lyapunov exponent exhibited frame-dependent values, while the critical structure it captures remained constant across conformal frames.

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arXiv2026

Gauss-Bonnet corrected string/black hole transition in large dimensions

We develop a unified analytic treatment of the Horowitz--Polchinski string/black hole correspondence that systematically incorporates higher-derivative corrections to gravity. Working in Euclidean signature -- where the Euclidean black hole and the thermal scalar arise as competing saddles of the same finite-temperature ensemble -- we include the Gauss--Bonnet term. The analysis is rendered tractable in this UV--sensitive regime by the large-$D$ expansion, which sharply separates the geometry into a universal near-zone and an asymptotic far-zone. In the near-zone, the coupled large-$D$ equations reduce the thermal-scalar sector to an exactly solvable Schrödinger problem, from which we extract the $α'$-corrected decay exponent and the corresponding shift of the Hagedorn temperature. In the far-zone, we construct closed-form Euclidean solutions of Einstein--Gauss--Bonnet theory at leading order in both $1/D$ and $α'$. Matching the two regions yields the complete corrected saddle -- fixing its temperature, horizon data, and on--shell action -- and permits a fully analytic comparison of free energies between the thermal-scalar and black hole phases. This provides a controlled derivation of the HP correspondence point with explicit higher-curvature corrections.

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arXiv2025

Unbounded Radius of Innermost Stable Circular Orbit in Higher-Dimensional Black Holes

The innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) offers a fundamental test of spacetime structure. However, its behavior in higher-dimensional black holes influenced by anisotropic energy-momentum tensors remains insufficiently explored. In this work, we investigate the upper bound of the ISCO in higher-dimensional, static, spherically symmetric, and asymptotically flat black hole spacetimes in the presence of an anisotropic energy-momentum tensor. The energy-momentum tensor is assumed to satisfy the weak energy condition, possess a non-positive trace, and obey constraints on radial and tangential pressures, collectively equivalent to the dominant energy condition with additional constraints. By analyzing the effective potential for timelike geodesics and imposing ISCO conditions, we demonstrate the general absence of an upper bound on the ISCO radius in higher-dimensional spacetimes. For dimensions greater than or equal to eight, an ISCO may not exist, depending on the radial and tangential components of the energy-momentum tensor. If an ISCO exists, its radius remains unbounded. These findings advance our understanding of orbital stability in higher-dimensional gravitational systems and highlight fundamental differences from four-dimensional black hole dynamics.

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arXiv2025

Frame Dependence of Bound on Lyapunov Exponent in Dilatonic Reissner-Nordström-AdS and Kerr-Sen-AdS Black Holes

We investigate the frame dependence of the Lyapunov exponent bound for charged particles in dilatonic Reissner-Nordström-AdS and Kerr-Sen-AdS black hole backgrounds, derived from Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory and the low-energy effective action of heterotic string theory, respectively. The analysis is performed in both the Einstein and string (Jordan) frames to examine the influence of conformal transformations on chaotic behavior. For massless particles, the Lyapunov exponent remains invariant under frame transformations, whereas for massive particles, it exhibits frame dependence owing to coupling to the dilaton field. Our results indicate sensitivity of the bound on chaos to the choice of frame. Depending on various parameters, the bound can be satisfied in the Einstein frame and violated in the string frame, while the opposite situation may occur for different parameter values. Numerical computations corroborate the findings of our analysis and demonstrate modifications in the chaotic behavior of string-inspired black holes induced by the dilaton field and the choice of frame.

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arXiv2025

Traversable wormhole for string, but not for particle

We propose a Lorentzian wormhole geometry characterized by a closed string massless sector with nontrivial $H$-flux and a scalar dilaton. In the string frame, the dilaton exhibits a negative kinetic term, enabling the existence of the wormhole. The geometry consists of three distinct regions. The middle region contains the throat, and its boundaries with the other two regions form non-Riemannian two-spheres, where a fundamental string becomes chiral, akin to a non-relativistic string. While point-particle geodesics are complete within each region and non-traversable across regions, strings perceive the geometry differently, allowing a chiral string to traverse freely.

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arXiv2025

Bound on Lyapunov exponent for a charged particle in Kerr-Sen-AdS Black Hole

We investigate the upper bound of the Lyapunov exponent for a charged particle in the Gibbons--Maeda--Garfinkle--Horowitz--Strominger (GMGHS)--AdS and Kerr--Sen--AdS black hole backgrounds, which originate from the low-energy effective actions of heterotic string theory and gauged supergravity. We analyze the Lyapunov exponent near the unstable orbit to examine possible violations of the bound. Our results indicate that the bound is sensitive to the signs and magnitudes of the charges, the angular momentum of the particle, the black hole spin, and the negative cosmological constant. The violations are pronounced in the extremal or near-extremal regime. Numerical analysis supports the analytical predictions and highlights the interplay between the string-inspired black hole and the charged particle.

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arXiv2024

Late-time Cosmology without Dark Sector but with Closed String Massless Sector

We explore the possibility of solving the dark energy and the coincidence problems by postulating the massless sector of closed strings. This sector constitutes the gravitational multiplet of string theory and, when applied to four-dimensional cosmology, predicts that \textit{the expansion of an open Universe defined in string frame is readily accelerating}. We confront the prediction with the late-time cosmological data of Type Ia supernovae and quasar absorption spectrum, which probe the evolutions of the Hubble parameter and possibly the fine-structure constant. We report that these observations are in admirable agreement with the prediction without any dark sector or coincidence problem. We estimate the Hubble constant, $H_{0}\simeq 71.2\pm 0.2\,\mathrm{km/s/Mpc}$.

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arXiv2024

Gauss-Bonnet Cosmology: large-temperature behaviour and bounds from Gravitational Waves

We provide a transparent discussion of the high temperature asymptotic behaviour of Cosmology in a dilaton-Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (dEGB) scenario of modified gravity with vanishing scalar potential. In particular, we show that it has a clear interpretation in terms of only three attractors (stable critical points) of a set of autonomous differential equations: $w=-\frac{1}{3}$, $w=1$ and $1<w<\frac{7}{3}$, where $w\equiv p/ρ$ is the equation of state, defined as the ratio of the total pressure and the total energy density. All the possible different high-temperature evolution histories of the model are exhausted by only eight paths in the flow of the set of the autonomous differential equations. Our discussion clearly explains why five out of them are characterized by a swift transition of the system toward the attractor, while the remaining three show a more convoluted evolution, where the system follows a meta-stable equation of state at intermediate temperatures before eventually jumping to the real attractor at higher temperatures. Compared to standard Cosmology, the regions of the dEGB parameter space with $w=-\frac{1}{3}$ show a strong enhancement of the expected Gravitational Wave stochastic background produced by the primordial plasma of relativistic particles of the Standard Model. This is due to the very peculiar fact that dEGB allows to have an epoch when the energy density $ρ_{\rm rad}$ of the relativistic plasma dominates the energy of the Universe while at the same time the rate of dilution with $T$ of the total energy density is slower than what usually expected during radiation dominance. This allows to use the bound from BBN to put in dEGB a constraint $T_{\rm RH}\lesssim 10^8 - 10^9$ GeV on the reheating temperature of the Universe $T_{\rm RH}$. Such BBN bound is complementary to late-time constraints from compact binary mergers.

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arXiv2024

Induced Cosmological Anisotropies and CMB Anomalies by a non-Abelian Gauge-Gravity Interaction

We present a non-abelian cousin of the model presented in \cite{Lee:2022rtz} which induces cosmological anisotropies on top of standard FLRW geometry. This is in some sense doing a cosmological mean field approximation, where the mean field cosmological model under consideration would be the standard FLRW, and the induced anisotropies are small perturbative corrections on top of it. Here we mostly focus on the non-abelian $SU(2)$ gauge fields coupled to the gravity to generate the anisotropies, which can be a viable model for the axion-like particle (ALP) dark sector. The induced anisotropies are consequences of the non-trivial back-reaction of the gauge fields on the gravity sector, and by a clever choice of the parametrization, one can generate the Bianchi model we have studied in this note. We also show that the anisotropies influence the Sachs-Wolfe effect and we discuss the implications.

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arXiv2023

WIMPs in Dilatonic Einstein Gauss-Bonnet Cosmology

We use the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) thermal decoupling scenario to probe Cosmologies in dilatonic Einstein Gauss-Bonnet (dEGB) gravity, where the Gauss-Bonnet term is non-minimally coupled to a scalar field with vanishing potential. We put constraints on the model parameters when the ensuing modified cosmological scenario drives the WIMP annihilation cross section beyond the present bounds from DM indirect detection searches. In our analysis we assumed WIMPs that annihilate to Standard Model particles through an s-wave process. For the class of solutions that comply with WIMP indirect detection bounds, we find that dEGB typically plays a mitigating role on the scalar field dynamics at high temperature, slowing down the speed of its evolution and reducing the enhancement of the Hubble constant compared to its standard value. For such solutions, we observe that the corresponding boundary conditions at high temperature correspond asymptotically to a vanishing deceleration parameter q, so that the effect of dEGB is to add an accelerating term that exactly cancels the deceleration predicted by General Relativity. The bounds from WIMP indirect detection are nicely complementary to late-time constraints from compact binary mergers. This suggest that it could be interesting to use other Early Cosmology processes to probe the dEGB scenario.

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arXiv2023

Homoclinic orbit and the violation of the chaos bound around a black hole with anisotropic matter fields

We study the homoclinic orbit and the violation of chaos bound, which are obtained by particle motions around a black hole that coexist with anisotropic matter fields. The homoclinic one is associated with an unstable local maximum of the effective potential. By perturbing a particle located slightly away from the homoclinic one, we numerically compute Lyapunov exponents indicating the sensitivity of the initial value. Our results demonstrate that the violation of the chaos bound increases with higher angular momentum, and the anisotropic matter gives rise to violating the chaos bound further, even in the case of the nonextremal black hole. We utilize the Hamiltonian-Jacobi formalism to explicitly illustrate how the geodesic motion of a particle can be integrable in the procedure of obtaining our findings.

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arXiv2022

Hairy black holes in dilatonic Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory

We study black hole solutions in dilatonic Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory with a coupling constant $α$ between the dilaton field and the Gauss-Bonnet term. In a previous study, we considered the black hole with the vanishing cosmological constant in this theory and constructed the hairy black hole solution with the negative $α$. In this study, we present black hole solutions numerically with various physical properties in anti-de Sitter spacetime. We describe the procedure for constructing the black hole solutions in detail.

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arXiv2022

Violation of bound on chaos for charged probe in Kerr-Newman-AdS black hole

We investigate the conjectured bound on the Lyapunov exponent for a charged particle with angular motion in the Kerr-Newman-AdS black hole. The Lyapunov exponent is calculated based on the effective Lagrangian. We show that the negative cosmological constant reduces the chaotic behavior of the particle, namely, it decreases the Lyapunov exponent. Hence, the bound is more effective in the AdS spacetime than in the flat spacetime. Nevertheless, we find that the bound can be violated when the angular momenta of the black hole are turned on. Moreover, we show that in an extremal black hole, the bound is more easily violated compared to the nonextremal black hole.

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