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Main Authors: Wang, Rui, Shi, Qi-Long, Xiong, Wei, Li, Peng-Cheng
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05767
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author Wang, Rui
Shi, Qi-Long
Xiong, Wei
Li, Peng-Cheng
author_facet Wang, Rui
Shi, Qi-Long
Xiong, Wei
Li, Peng-Cheng
contents Tidal Love numbers (TLNs) characterize the response of compact objects to external tidal fields and vanish for classical Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes in general relativity. Nonvanishing TLNs therefore provide a potential observational window into beyond-classical physics. In this work, we present a unified and fully analytic study of the TLNs of three representative classes of regular black holes -- the Bardeen black hole, the black hole with sub-Planckian curvature, and the black hole arising in asymptotically safe gravity -- under scalar, vector, and axial gravitational perturbations. Employing a Green's function method combined with systematic perturbative expansions, we show that TLNs of regular black holes are generically nonzero and exhibit strong model and mode dependence. In many cases, higher-order corrections develop logarithmic scale dependence, closely resembling renormalization-group running in quantum field theory and revealing a scale-dependent tidal response absent in classical black holes. Our analysis demonstrates that the internal structure of regular black holes, including de Sitter or Minkowski cores and quantum-gravity-inspired modifications, leaves distinct fingerprints in their tidal properties. These results provide a comparative theoretical benchmark for assessing regular black-hole models and establish a basis for future phenomenological and observational studies with gravitational-wave detectors.
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spellingShingle Tidal Love numbers for regular black holes
Wang, Rui
Shi, Qi-Long
Xiong, Wei
Li, Peng-Cheng
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Tidal Love numbers (TLNs) characterize the response of compact objects to external tidal fields and vanish for classical Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes in general relativity. Nonvanishing TLNs therefore provide a potential observational window into beyond-classical physics. In this work, we present a unified and fully analytic study of the TLNs of three representative classes of regular black holes -- the Bardeen black hole, the black hole with sub-Planckian curvature, and the black hole arising in asymptotically safe gravity -- under scalar, vector, and axial gravitational perturbations. Employing a Green's function method combined with systematic perturbative expansions, we show that TLNs of regular black holes are generically nonzero and exhibit strong model and mode dependence. In many cases, higher-order corrections develop logarithmic scale dependence, closely resembling renormalization-group running in quantum field theory and revealing a scale-dependent tidal response absent in classical black holes. Our analysis demonstrates that the internal structure of regular black holes, including de Sitter or Minkowski cores and quantum-gravity-inspired modifications, leaves distinct fingerprints in their tidal properties. These results provide a comparative theoretical benchmark for assessing regular black-hole models and establish a basis for future phenomenological and observational studies with gravitational-wave detectors.
title Tidal Love numbers for regular black holes
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05767