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In modified gravity, dynamical Schwarzschild black holes under scalar waves exhibit non-thermal particle creation while preserving the generalized second law and forming stable zero-temperature remnants at the extremal bound.

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arxiv 2604.03518 v2 pith:I6AKXPVB submitted 2026-04-03 gr-qc

Dynamical Black Hole Thermodynamics in Modified Gravity

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keywords blackdynamicalholegravitymodifiedeffecteffectiveexplicitly
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The authors analyze a black hole in modified gravity theory, which includes an extra vector field and scalar degrees of freedom beyond standard general relativity. They focus on the apparent horizon that changes with time due to an incoming scalar gravitational wave in breathing mode. This time dependence alters the surface gravity and temperature in a way that breaks the usual slow, adiabatic approximation used in black hole thermodynamics. As a result, particles are created in a non-thermal spectrum rather than the familiar Hawking radiation. To resolve an apparent violation of the second law of thermodynamics, they separate quick reversible changes in the horizon geometry from slower irreversible entropy production, relying on the Raychaudhuri equation that tracks how light rays converge or diverge. On short timescales, the non-thermal emission provides a channel for information to leave the black hole. On long timescales, the repulsive vector charge stops the black hole from evaporating completely once its mass approaches the charge value, leaving a cold, stable remnant. These effects are presented as testable signatures for future gravitational-wave detectors.

Core claim

The Generalized Second Law remains preserved by decoupling first-order reversible kinematic-horizon fluctuations from second-order irreversible entropy growth using the Raychaudhuri equation, while the massive vector field halts evaporation as mass approaches the extremal bound M_G to Q_G yielding a stable zero-temperature remnant.

Load-bearing premise

The scalar gravitational wave breathing mode can be imposed on the Schwarzschild background in MOG while treating the evolution as quasi-adiabatic without significant backreaction from the created particles or the vector field altering the metric at leading order.

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Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The analysis rests on the standard Raychaudhuri equation extended to MOG, the definition of the apparent horizon in dynamical spacetimes, and the MOG vector charge as a fixed parameter that sets the extremal limit. No new entities are postulated beyond the existing MOG fields.

free parameters (1)
  • vector charge Q_G
    Sets the extremal bound where evaporation halts; treated as an input parameter of the MOG theory rather than derived from the wave dynamics.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Raychaudhuri equation governs null geodesic congruence in MOG
    Invoked to separate first-order reversible horizon fluctuations from second-order irreversible entropy production.
  • ad hoc to paper Quasi-adiabatic evolution under scalar breathing mode
    Assumed to allow modulation of surface gravity without dominant backreaction.

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We investigate the dynamical and thermodynamic evolution of a Schwarzschild black hole in Modified Gravity (MOG) perturbed by a scalar gravitational wave breathing mode. By evaluating the linearized modified Einstein equations at the near-horizon boundary, we reduce the spatial wave operator to a closed-form temporal ordinary differential equation, thereby explicitly deriving the damped-oscillatory kinematics of the scalar strain. Using a quasi-adiabatic approximation, we show that the effective surface gravity and dynamical temperature are linearly modulated by the perturbation amplitude and velocity. These rapid geometric fluctuations break the semiclassical adiabatic regime, triggering explicitly non-thermal particle creation analogous to the dynamical Casimir effect. Furthermore, we resolve a local thermodynamic paradox concerning apparent horizon area fluctuations. We prove that first-order geometric perturbations $\mathcal{O}(h_b)$ are fully reversible kinematic artifacts, whereas irreversible entropy generation is a strictly second-order $\mathcal{O}(h_b^2)$ effect driven by the Raychaudhuri expansion, thereby preserving the Generalized Second Law. Finally, we apply these mechanisms to the black hole information paradox. We show that treating the MOG deformation parameter as a quantum-scale running coupling, $\alpha(M)$, mathematically decouples the effective gravitational charge from linear mass scaling. This dynamically forces the evaporating black hole toward the extremal limit ($M_G \to Q_G$), smoothly quenching the Hawking temperature to zero and yielding a thermodynamically stable, information-preserving remnant.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.03518 by Emmanuel T. Rodulfo, Nikko John Leo S. Lobos.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. Entropy production rates for a dynamically perturbed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. The MOG resolution to the black hole information paradox. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗

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