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Yong-Zhuang Li

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Particle motions and gravitational waveforms in rotating black hole spacetimes of loop quantum gravity

We study the influence of the loop quantum gravity (LQG) holonomy-correction parameter $ξ$ on black hole horizon structure, timelike geodesic motion, and gravitational wave emission in two rotating LQG-inspired black hole spacetimes, constructed via Newman-Janis algorithm from two distinct spherically symmetric seed metrics (type BH-I and BH-II). The physically admissible range of $ξ$ is determined by requiring the existence of event horizons, marginally bound orbits, and innermost stable circular orbits simultaneously, and is found to shrink monotonically with increasing spin parameter $a$. For equatorial periodic orbits, increasing $ξ$ at fixed angular momentum enlarges the bound energy range, while for off-equatorial orbits, it suppresses the allowed range of the Carter constant, effectively confining trajectories closer to the equatorial plane. The effects of $ξ$ and $a$ on orbital dynamics are systematically antagonistic. Gravitational waveforms computed within a leading-order post-Newtonian extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) model show that larger $ξ$ produces enhanced deviations from the Kerr waveform, more prominently so for type BH-II than type BH-I. The resulting characteristic strains occupy the $(10^{-3}, 0.1)$ Hz frequency band but fall below the sensitivity curves of current and near-future space-based detectors for the EMRI parameters considered ($M=10^7 M_\odot$, $m=10 M_\odot$, $D_L = 200$ Mpc). Adiabatic inspiral calculations confirm that $ξ$ and $a$ drive orbital evolution in opposite directions, with their relative magnitude determining whether quantum corrections accelerate or retard the inspiral. These results establish systematic observational signatures of holonomy corrections in rotating LQG black holes and motivate higher-fidelity waveform modeling for future space-based gravitational wave detectors.

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The bound orbits and gravitational waveforms of timelike particles around renormalization group improved Kerr black holes

In this article, we investigate the bound orbits of the timelike particles and the gravitational waveforms emitted from these orbits around a renormalization group improved Kerr black hole in the framework of the asymptotic safety approach. The running Newton coupling in the metric is characterized by two free quantum parameters $(ω,\,γ)$ arsing from the non-perturbative renormalization group theory and the appropriate cutoff identification, respectively. As expected, the radii of the horizon, the marginally bound orbits and the innermost stable orbit are all decrease as the quantum parameters increase. Under the extreme mass-ratio inspirals approximation the deviation of gravitational waveforms radiated by the periodic orbits from those in the classical Kerr background increases with the two quantum parameter. However, this effect is much smaller in the retrograde case compared to the prograde case. Especially, by comparing the characteristic strain of those gravitational wave with the sensitivity curve of several potential detectors, we find that their characteristic frequencies can fall within the sensitivity ranges of several planned gravitational wave observatories, suggesting that such signals may be detectable with sufficient instrumental sensitivity.

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Geodesic dynamics and multi-inclination images of a non-minimally coupled black hole with a thin accretion disk

In this paper, we investigate the optical properties of a black hole in non-minimal Einstein-Yang-Mills theory, illuminated by a thin accretion disk. In our setup, matter follows stable circular orbits outside the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO), while inside the ISCO, it rapidly plunges into the black hole. By analyzing the orbital dynamics of massive and massless particles, we find that the properties of both the ISCO and the photon sphere significantly depend on the non-minimal coupling parameter. Moreover, compared with the Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordström black holes, the non-minimal coupling extends the range of the impact parameter and slightly enhances the redshift effect in the images. Additionally, due to the significant influence of the non-minimal coupling parameter on the event horizon, the observed intensity of this black hole image under the selected emission model ultimately turns out to be weaker than that of the other two types of black holes, regardless of the inclination angle between the accretion disk and observation planes.

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The shadow and quasinormal modes of the asymptotically flat hairy black holes with a dilaton potential

In this article, the shadow and the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of an exact asymptotically flat hairy electrically charged black hole solution with a dilaton potential are investigated. Using the {constraint} equation among the integration constant $η$ of the gravitational field, the mass $M$, the electric charge $Q$ and the coupling constant $ν$ between the $U(1)$ field and the dilaton field, we find that the shadow radii, the Lyapunov exponent $λ$ and the coordinate angular velocity $Ω_{c}$ only significantly affected by $ν$ if the $Q$ is close to the extremal value, especially when $ν$ approaches to one. Furthermore, the QNMs are numerically computed by using the Hatsuda method and verify with the higher-order WKB approximations with the Padé summation. We find that the QNMs are close to that of the low energy limit of the string theory when $ν$ is large enough. In the eikonal limit, the real and imaginary parts are proved to be given by $Ω_{c}$ and $λ$, respectively.

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Effects of hair on the image of a rotating black hole illuminated by a thin accretion disk

In this paper, we investigate the shadow and optical appearance of the hairy Kerr black hole illuminated by a thin accretion disk, the materials of which outside the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) move on the equatorial circular orbit, while inside the ISCO they quickly plunge into the black hole. The deformation parameter $α$ and hair parameter $l_o$ are found to influence the motions of accretion as well as the redshift effect of the photon, such that they significantly affect the shadow and image of the hairy Kerr black hole. Especially, these two parameters have competing effects on the size of the black hole's shadow, and significantly increase the width of photon ring. This study provides a preliminary theoretical prediction that the image of the hairy Kerr black hole, especially the photon ring structure, may be used to constrain the hair parameters with future high-precision astronomical observation.

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Timelike bound orbits and pericenter precession around black hole with conformally coupled scalar hair

We investigate the geodesic motions of timelike particles around a static hairy black hole with conformally coupled scalar field. We mainly focus on the effects of the scalar charge and electric charge on the marginally bound orbits (MBO), innermost stable circular orbits (ISCO) and on the precessing orbits around this black hole. Our results show that both the scalar and electric charges suppress the energy as well as the angular momentum of the particles in the bound orbits. Then, we study the relativistic periastron precessions of the particles and constrain the charge parameters by employing the observational result of the S2 star's precession in SgrA*. It is found that the constraints on the charge parameters from S2 star's motion are tighter than those from black hole shadow. Finally, we analyze the periodic motions of the particles and figure out samples of periodic orbits' configurations around the hairy black hole.

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Precessing and periodic timelike orbits and their potential applications in Einsteinian cubic gravity

Einsteinian cubic gravity (ECG) is the most general theory up to cubic order in curvature, which have the same graviton spectrum as the Einstein theory. In this paper, we investigate the geodesic motions of timelike particles around the four dimensional asymptotically flat black holes in ECG, and discuss their potential applications when connecting them with recent observational results. We first explore the effects of the cubic couplings on the marginally bound orbits (MBO), innermost stable circular orbits (ISCO) and on the periodic orbits around the Einsteinian cubic black hole. We find that comparing to Schwarzschild black hole in general relativity, the cubic coupling enhances the energy as well as the angular momentum for all the bound orbits of the particles. Then, we derive the relativistic periastron precessions of the particles and give a preliminary bound on the cubic coupling employing the observational result of the S2 star' precession in SgrA*. Finally, after calculating the periodic orbits' configurations, we preliminarily evaluate the gravitational waveform radiated from several periodic orbits in one complete period of a test object which orbits a supermassive Einsteinian cubic black hole. Our studies could be helpful for us to better understand the gravitational structure of the theory with high curvatures.

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Trajectories of photons around a rotating black hole with unusual asymptotics

Most black hole solutions are characterized with asymptotically flat, or asymptotically (anti) de-Sitter behaviors, but some black holes with unusual asymptotics have also been constructed, which is believed to provide remarkable insights into our understanding of the nature of gravity. In this paper, focusing on a rotating black hole with unusual asymptotics in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton (EMD) theory, we innovatively analyze the photons' trajectories around this black hole background, showing that the unusual asymptotics has significant influences on the photons' trajectories. We expect that our analysis could give more insights in the scenario of black holes' shadow and image.

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Entanglement Wedge Cross Section with Gauss-Bonnet Corrections and Thermal Quench

The entanglement wedge cross section (EWCS) is numerically investigated statically and dynamically in a five-dimension AdS-Vaidya spacetime with Gauss-Bonnet (GB) corrections, focusing on two identical rectangular strips on the boundary. In the static case, EWCS increases as the GB coupling constant $α$ increases and disentangles at small separation between two strips for smaller $α$. For the dynamic case, such a monotonic relationship between EWCS and $α$ holds but the two strips no longer disentangle monotonically as in the static case. In the early thermal quenching stage, the disentanglement occurs at smaller $α$ with larger separations. Two strips then disentangle at larger {separation} with larger $α$ as time evolves. Our results indicate that the higher-order derivative corrections, like the entanglement measure in the dual boundary theory, also have nontrivial effects on the EWCS evolution.

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Probes of holographic thermalization in a simple model with momentum relaxation

From the viewpoint of AdS/CFT correspondence, we investigate the holographic thermalization process in a four dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-axions gravity theory, which is considered as a simple bulk theory dual to a boundary theory with momentum relaxation. We probe the thermalization process using the equal time two-point functions and the entanglement entropy with the circle profile. We analyze the effects of momentum relaxation on the process in details and results show that the momentum relaxation gives longer thermalization time, which means it suppresses the holographic thermalization process. This matches the properties of the quasi-normal frequencies for the bulk fluctuations which the frequency violates from zero mode more profoundly for stronger momentum relaxation. We claim that is reasonable because the decay of the bulk fluctuations holographically describes the approach to thermal equilibrium in the dual theory.

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Holographic subregion complexity under thermal quench in Einstein-Maxwell-Axions theory with momentum relaxation

We investigate the evolution of holographic entanglement entropy (HEE) and holographic complexity (HC) under a thermal quench in Einstein-Maxwell-Axion theory (EMA), which is dual to a field theory with momentum relaxation on the boundary. A strip-shaped boundary geometry is utilized to calculate HEE and HC via `entropy=surface' and `complexity=volume' conjecture, respectively. By fixing other parameters we claim that either large enough black hole charge or width of the strip will introduce swallow-tail behaviors in HEE and multi-values in HC due to the discontinuity of the minimum Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi (HRT) surface. Meanwhile, we explore the effects of momentum relaxation on the evolution of HEE and HC. The results present that the momentum relaxation will suppress the discontinuity to occur as it increases. For large enough momentum relaxation the continuity of HEE and HC will be recovered.

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Baryon acoustic oscillation methods for generic curvature: Application to the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

We develop methods for investigating baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) features in cosmological models with non-trivial (but slowly varying) averaged spatial curvature: models that are not necessarily flat, close to flat, nor with constant spatial curvature. The class of models to which our methods apply include Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi models, modified gravity cosmologies, and inhomogeneous cosmologies with backreaction - in which we do not have a prediction of the shape of the spatial 2-point correlation function, but where we nevertheless expect to see a BAO feature in the present-day galaxy distribution, in form of an excess in the galaxy 2-point correlation function. We apply our methods to the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) dataset, investigating both the Lambda Cold Dark Matter ($Λ$CDM) and timescape cosmological models as case studies. The correlation functions measured in the two fiducial models contain a similarly-pronounced BAO feature. We use the relative tangential and radial BAO scales to measure the anisotropic Alcock-Paczyński distortion parameter, $ε$, which is independent of the underlying BAO preferred scale. We find that $ε$ is consistent with zero in both fiducial cosmologies, indicating that models with a different spatial curvature behaviour can account for the relative positions of the tangential and radial BAO scale. We validate our methods using $Λ$CDM mocks.

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Lagrangian theory of structure formation in relativistic cosmology. V. Irrotational fluids

We extend the general relativistic Lagrangian perturbation theory, recently developed for the formation of cosmic structures in a dust continuum, to the case of model universes containing a single fluid with a single-valued analytic equation of state. Using a coframe-based perturbation approach, we investigate evolution equations for structure formation in pressure-supported irrotational fluids that generate their rest-frame spacetime foliation. We provide master equations to first order for the evolution of the trace and traceless parts of barotropic perturbations that evolve in the perturbed space, where the latter describes the propagation of gravitational waves in the fluid. We illustrate the trace evolution for a linear equation of state and for a model equation of state describing isotropic velocity dispersion, and we discuss differences to the dust matter model, to the Newtonian case, and to standard perturbation approaches.

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Gauss-Bonnet correction to Holographic thermalization: two-point functions, circular Wilson loops and entanglement entropy

We study the thermalization of a class of 4-dimensional strongly coupled theories dual to a 5-dimensional AdS-Vaidya spacetime with Gauss-Bonnet curvature corrections. We probe the thermalization using the two-point functions, the expectation values of circular Wilson loops and entanglement entropy. When boundary separation is small, we observe that the thermalization times of these observables have the weak dependence on the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant $α$. In addition, the growth rate of entanglement entropy density is nearly volume-independent. We also show that a new kind of swallow-tail behavior may exhibit in the thermalization of the two-point function when $α$ is negative and $\ell$ is large enough. At large negative $α$ ($α\lesssim -0.1$) the relationship between the critical thermalization time of entanglement entropy and the boundary separation encounters certain \textquotedblleft phase transition\textquotedblright .

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Linear growth of entanglement entropy in holographic thermalization captured by horizon interiors and mutual information

We study the holographic entanglement entropy in a homogeneous falling shell background, which is dual to the strongly coupled field theory following a global quench. For d=2 conformal field theories, it is known that the entropy has a linear growth regime if the scale of the entangling region is large. In addition, the growth rate approaches a constant when the scale increases. We demonstrate analytically that this behavior is directly related to the part of minimal area surface probing the interior of apparent horizons in the bulk, as well as the mutual information between two disjoint rectangular subsystems in the boundary. Furthermore, we show numerically that all the results are universal for the d=3 conformal field theory, the non-relativistic scale-invariant theory and the dual theory of Gauss-Bonnet gravity.

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