Backreactions from loading the stable photon sphere in Weyl conformal gravity

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Hauptverfasser: Kusano, Reinosuke, Horne, Keith, Koenig, Friedrich, Asuncion, Miguel Yulo
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author Kusano, Reinosuke
Horne, Keith
Koenig, Friedrich
Asuncion, Miguel Yulo
author_facet Kusano, Reinosuke
Horne, Keith
Koenig, Friedrich
Asuncion, Miguel Yulo
contents We investigate the accumulation of null matter at the stable photon sphere in the Mannheim-Kazanas metric, the analogue to the Schwarzschild solution in Weyl's conformal theory of gravity. In our toy problem in which we consider an infinitely-thin shell, we find that a jump in radial pressure ${T^r}_r$ is induced across the shell unless the shell has a radius of either the unstable or stable photon sphere radii. We then find that upon loading the stable photon sphere, its area remains invariant. Furthermore, at a critical threshold loading limit for this zero-width null matter shell, we are able to produce a metric containing an extremal horizon with an AdS$_2\times$S$^2$ geometry completely independent of the cosmological curvature. This hitherto unencountered and therefore unexpected result is a phenomenon unseen in standard nonconformal second-order metrics with nonzero cosmological constants.
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spellingShingle Backreactions from loading the stable photon sphere in Weyl conformal gravity
Kusano, Reinosuke
Horne, Keith
Koenig, Friedrich
Asuncion, Miguel Yulo
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
We investigate the accumulation of null matter at the stable photon sphere in the Mannheim-Kazanas metric, the analogue to the Schwarzschild solution in Weyl's conformal theory of gravity. In our toy problem in which we consider an infinitely-thin shell, we find that a jump in radial pressure ${T^r}_r$ is induced across the shell unless the shell has a radius of either the unstable or stable photon sphere radii. We then find that upon loading the stable photon sphere, its area remains invariant. Furthermore, at a critical threshold loading limit for this zero-width null matter shell, we are able to produce a metric containing an extremal horizon with an AdS$_2\times$S$^2$ geometry completely independent of the cosmological curvature. This hitherto unencountered and therefore unexpected result is a phenomenon unseen in standard nonconformal second-order metrics with nonzero cosmological constants.
title Backreactions from loading the stable photon sphere in Weyl conformal gravity
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18750