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20192026
most citedVacua and Exact Solutions in Lower- Limits of EGB

56 citations · 301 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

gr-qc2026

Ricci-flat Seeds, Trombone Rescaling and Magnetizing Kerr Black Holes

Liang Ma, H. Lu

We present a new family of Ricci-flat rotating metrics, which we refer to as Solution II, obtained by demagnetizing the genuine Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson (G-KBR) black hole. Together…

hep-th2026

Schwarzschild Black Hole in Uniform Magnetic Field in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton Theories

Liang Ma, Peng-Yu Wu, H. Lu

We obtain the Kerr black hole in an external uniform magnetic field in the Kaluza-Klein (KK) theory via a standard solution-generating technique. Using this as our starting point,…

gr-qc2026

Global Distinctions Between New Electrovacuum and Kundt Class

Liang Ma, H. Lu

It was observed [2606.30426] that our recently constructed electrovacuum [2606.23782], supported by electromagnetic fields, can be locally transformed to a special Petrov type D so…

gr-qc2026

Demagnetizing KBR and New Ricci-flat Rotating Metric

Liang Ma, H. Lu

We construct a new Ricci-flat metric by demagnetizing the recently reported Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson (KBR) solution. The metric is a deformation of the Kerr metric characterized by a…

hep-th2025

Quadratic Curvature Correction to 5D Myers-Perry Metric

Liang Ma, H. Lu

We consider quadratic curvature perturbation to the Myers-Perry black hole in five dimensions at the linear level in the coupling constant. The solution can then be solved order by…

hep-th2025★ 2 cited

Full spectrum of Love numbers of Reissner-Nordstrom black hole in D-dimensions

Minghao Xia, Liang Ma, Yi Pang +1

We present a comprehensive analysis of the full spectrum of tidal Love numbers for Reissner-Nordström (RN) black holes in general spacetime dimensions. By perturbing the Einstein-M…

hep-th2025

Instanton Moduli, Topology and the Bosonic/Heterotic String Origins

Liang Ma, H. Lu

We construct new supersymmetric NS(-1)-branes supported by the 't Hooft instantons in , supergravity. We show that although the magnetic 3-for…

hep-th2025

New BPS States from Bosonic/Heterotic Duality

Kai-Peng Lu, H. Lu, Liang Ma

In this paper, we consider the recently proposed bosonic/heterotic duality that relates the heterotic superstrings to the noncritical bosonic string. Although the latter is nonsupe…

hep-th2025

Consistent Warped Reduction of Heterotic Supergravity

Liang Ma, H. Lu

We find a curious duality between the bosonic sector of heterotic supergravity and the noncritical bosonic string with conformal anomaly. This allows us to map the Mink$_4\times S^…

hep-th2024★ 8 cited

Leading Higher Derivative Corrections to Multipole Moments of Kerr-Newman Black Hole

Liang Ma, Yi Pang, H. Lu

We study the (leading) 4-derivative corrections, including both parity even and odd terms, to electrically-charged Kerr-Newman black holes. The linear perturbative equations are th…

gr-qc2024

Charging the Love numbers: Charged scalar response coefficients of Kerr-Newman black holes

Liang Ma, Ze-Hua Wu, Yi Pang +1

We study the electrically-charged massless scalar response to the general Kerr-Newman black hole and obtain the exact (complex) response coefficients, whose real parts are the Love…

hep-th2024★ 21 cited

The Surprising Effectiveness of Weyl Gravity in Probing Quantum Corrections to AdS Black Holes

Liang Ma, Peng-Ju Hu, Yi Pang +1

Computing leading higher curvature contributions to thermodynamic quantities of AdS black hole is drastically simplified once the higher curvature terms are expressed in terms of p…

hep-th2024★ 5 cited

Boosted Rotating Dyonic Strings in Salam-Sezgin Model

Liang Ma, Yi Pang, H. Lu

We show that the bosonic sector of the Salam-Sezgin gauged supergravity model possesses a -duality symmetry upon a circle reduction to . We then construct a…

hep-th2023★ 13 cited

Improved Reall-Santos method for AdS black holes in general 4-derivative gravities

Peng-Ju Hu, Liang Ma, H. Lu +1

For asymptotically flat black holes, Reall-Santos method is a convenient tool to compute leading higher derivative corrections to the thermodynamic quantities without actually solv…

hep-th2023★ 5 cited

Dyonic Black Strings and the Charge Lattice in Salam-Sezgin model

Liang Ma, Yi Pang, H. Lu

We obtain a class of dyonic black string solutions in 6D Salam-Sezgin model. We then calculate various thermodynamic quantities associated with this solution. Interestingly, for th…

hep-th2023★ 1 cited

Vulnerability of Horizon Regularity: Horizon as a Natural Boundary

Qi-Yuan Mao, Liang Ma, H. Lu

We consider Einstein gravity extended with Riemann-squared term and construct the leading-order perturbative solution to the rotating black hole with all equal angular momenta in $…

hep-th2023★ 34 cited

Higher derivative contributions to black hole thermodynamics at NNLO

Liang Ma, Yi Pang, H. Lu

In an effective theory of gravity, thermodynamic quantities of black holes receive corrections from the infinite series of higher derivative terms. At the next to leading order, th…

hep-th2022★ 13 cited

Negative Corrections to Black Hole Entropy from String Theory

Liang Ma, Yi Pang, H. Lu

We report for the first time that in heterotic string compactified on 4-torus or equivalently IIA string compactified on K3, the leading corrections to the rotating black stri…

gr-qc2022★ 8 cited

Quantum Corrections to Pair Production of Charged Black Holes in de Sitter Space

Yu-Peng Wang, Liang Ma, Yi Pang

We compute Euclidean action of charged de Sitter black holes in four dimensional gravitational Euler-Heisenberg model. It turns out that the action of a general Euclidean dyonicall…

gr-qc2022★ 30 cited

Thermodynamics of Taub-NUT and Plebanski Solutions

Hai-Shan Liu, H. Lu, Liang Ma

We observe the parallel between the null Killing vector on the horizon and degenerate Killing vectors at both north and south poles in Kerr-Taub-NUT and general Plebanski solutions…

hep-th2022★ 16 cited

Improved Wald formalism and First Law of Dyonic Black Strings with Mixed Chern-Simons Terms

Liang Ma, Yi Pang, H. Lu

We study the first law of thermodynamics of dyonic black strings carrying a linear momentum in type IIA string theory compactified on K3 with leading order corrections. The lo…

hep-th2021

-corrections to Near Extremal Dyonic Strings and Weak Gravity Conjecture

Liang Ma, Yi Pang, H. Lü

We construct non-extremal dyonic string solutions in 6D minimal supergravity where the leading higher derivative corrections arise from either the type IIA string theory compactifi…

hep-th2021★ 8 cited

Hidden Relations of Central Charges and OPEs in Holographic CFT

Yue-Zhou Li, H. Lu, Liang Ma

It is known that the central charges in four-dimensional CFTs are linear combinations of the three independent OPE coefficients of the stress-tensor three-point function. I…

hep-th2020★ 1 cited

A Correspondence between Ricci-flat Kerr and Kaluza-Klein AdS Black Hole

Liang Ma, H. Lu

We establish an explicit correspondence of Einstein gravity on the squashed spheres that are the bundles over to the Kaluza-Klein AdS gravity on the tori. Th…