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gr-qc2026

The Schwarzschild Black Hole in an External Gravitational Tidal Field: the Quasinormal Spectrum

Dimitrios Giataganas, Alex Kehagias, Antonio Riotto

A black hole need not ring down in isolation, since a nearby companion can subject it to an external gravitational tide. We calculate how a quadrupole tide modifies the Schwarzschi…

hep-th2026

Thermal Origin of Black Hole Quasinormal Modes

D. Giataganas, G. F. Giudice, A. Kehagias +2

When a black hole rings after a merger, it emits gravitational waves at characteristic frequencies known as quasinormal modes (QNMs). In the eikonal limit, these modes are governed…

hep-th2026

Black Hole Photon Rings Saturate the Quantum Chaos Bound

D. Giataganas, G. F. Giudice, A. Kehagias +2

We study the quantum chaos bound in the photon ring region surrounding black holes. By evaluating the Lyapunov exponent associated with unstable null geodesics in a broad class of…

hep-th20262 cited

Anisotropic critical points from holography

Dimitrios Giataganas, Umut Gürsoy, Claire Moran +2

We present a comprehensive analysis of generic 5-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion (EMDA) holographic theories with exponential couplings. We find and classify exact, anal…

gr-qc2026

Black Hole Mergers as the Fastest Photon Ring Scramblers

D. Giataganas, G. F. Giudice, A. Ianniccari +5

Black holes are the most efficient scramblers in nature. By mapping the instantaneous mass and angular momentum of two spinless black holes in a quasi-circular binary onto those of…

hep-th2025

Timelike Entanglement Entropy and Renormalization Group Flow Irreversibility

Dimitrios Giataganas

We study holographic c-theorems based on timelike entanglement entropy and show that a timelike c-function captures irreversible renormalization group (RG) flow. We demonstrate tha…