2 papers
gr-qc2026
Quasinormal Ringdown and Echoes in Accreting Exotic Compact Objects
Chanchal Sharma, Kabir Chakravarti, Sudipta Sarkar
Exotic compact objects (ECOs) may produce late-time gravitational-wave (GW) echoes, but sufficiently compact ECOs undergoing realistic accretion may eventually form an event horizo…
gr-qc2026
Ladder Symmetry: The Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Vanishing Love Numbers
Chanchal Sharma, Shuvayu Roy, Sudipta Sarkar
Black holes in four-dimensional, asymptotically flat general relativity have vanishing static tidal Love numbers (TLNs), a property tied to a hidden symmetry of the perturbation eq…