Fermionic Love number of Reissner-Nordström black holes

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Authors: Xiankai Pang, Yu Tian, Hongbao Zhang, Qingquan Jiang
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Abstract

The tidal deformation of compact objects, characterised by their Love numbers, provides insights into the internal structure of neutron stars and black holes. While static bosonic tidal Love numbers vanish for black holes in general relativity, it has been recently revealed that static fermionic tidal perturbations can induce non-zero Love numbers for Kerr black holes. In this paper, we investigate the response of the Reissner-Nordström black hole to the fermionic Weyl field. As a result, we find that the corresponding fermionic tidal Love numbers are also non-vanishing for the Reissner-Nordström black holes except for the extremal ones, which highlights the universal distinct behavior of the static fermionic tidal Love numbers compared to the bosonic counterparts.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Black Holes and Theoretical Physics Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

Publication details

Journal / source
Physics Letters B
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Volume
878
Pages
140555–140555
Publication date
20 May 2026
Language
EN