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arxiv: 2511.12580 · v3 · submitted 2025-11-16 · 🌀 gr-qc · hep-th

Dynamical Tidal Response of Non-rotating Black Holes: Connecting the MST Formalism and Worldline EFT

Hajime Kobayashi , Shinji Mukohyama , Naritaka Oshita , Kazufumi Takahashi , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat This is my paper

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keywords black hole tidal responsedynamical tidal Love numbersMST formalismworldline EFTrenormalization ambiguitiesgeneral relativitygravitational waveslow-frequency regime
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The renormalized tidal response of non-rotating black holes carries ambiguities from renormalization scheme and flow initial condition, producing scheme-dependent dynamical tidal Love numbers.

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This paper connects the MST formalism for black hole perturbations to worldline effective field theory to study the dynamical tidal response of static spherically symmetric black holes in general relativity at low frequencies. It demonstrates that the renormalized tidal response function contains unavoidable ambiguities tied to the choice of renormalization scheme and the initial condition of the renormalization flow equation. Fixing these choices yields dynamical tidal Love numbers that vary with the scheme. The connection matters because tidal responses shape the gravitational wave signals from black hole binary inspirals in the post-Newtonian regime. A sympathetic reader cares since it clarifies the care required when matching analytical perturbation methods to effective field theory descriptions.

Core claim

We analyze the dynamical tidal response of static and spherically symmetric black holes in general relativity in the low-frequency regime by matching the Mano-Suzuki-Takasugi formalism for black-hole perturbations with the worldline effective field theory. The renormalized tidal response function is subject to inevitable ambiguities associated with the choice of renormalization scheme and with the initial condition of the renormalization flow equation. Once these ambiguities are fixed, we obtain scheme-dependent dynamical tidal Love numbers.

What carries the argument

The matching between the Mano-Suzuki-Takasugi (MST) formalism and the worldline effective field theory, which computes the renormalized tidal response function and exposes its scheme and initial-condition ambiguities.

If this is right

  • Dynamical tidal Love numbers become scheme-dependent once the renormalization ambiguities are fixed.
  • The matched formalism extends directly to generic non-rotating compact objects such as neutron stars in general relativity.
  • The same matching procedure applies to black holes in theories beyond general relativity.
  • Tidal responses computed this way enter gravitational wave waveforms during binary inspiral.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The scheme dependence may reflect different ways of absorbing finite contributions when defining the black hole's effective properties in the EFT.
  • One could check consistency by comparing the scheme-dependent Love numbers against numerical relativity simulations of tidal encounters.
  • Similar renormalization ambiguities might arise when applying worldline EFT to other gravitational systems with horizons.

Load-bearing premise

The matching between the MST formalism for black-hole perturbations and the worldline EFT description remains valid and accurate throughout the low-frequency regime for static, spherically symmetric black holes in general relativity.

What would settle it

An explicit computation of the tidal response function with an alternate renormalization scheme or different initial condition for the flow equation that produces unchanged dynamical tidal Love numbers would falsify the existence of inevitable ambiguities.

read the original abstract

The response of a black hole (BH) to tidal forces encodes key information about the underlying gravitational theory and affects the waveform of gravitational waves emitted during binary inspiral processes. In this paper, we analyze the dynamical tidal response of static and spherically symmetric BHs in a low-frequency regime within general relativity (GR), based on a matching between the Mano-Suzuki-Takasugi (MST) methods for an analytical approach to BH perturbations and the worldline effective field theory (EFT) for an efficient and unified computation of the binary dynamics within the post-Newtonian regime. We show that the renormalized tidal response function is subject to inevitable ambiguities associated with the choice of renormalization scheme and with the initial condition of the renormalization flow equation. Once these ambiguities are fixed, we obtain scheme-dependent dynamical tidal Love numbers. We also discuss possible extensions of our formalism, including generic non-rotating compact objects (e.g., neutron stars) in GR and BHs in theories beyond GR.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper connects the Mano-Suzuki-Takasugi (MST) formalism for exact solutions to black-hole perturbation equations with worldline effective field theory (EFT) to compute the dynamical tidal response of static, spherically symmetric black holes in GR in the low-frequency regime. The central claim is that the renormalized tidal response function is subject to inevitable ambiguities from the choice of renormalization scheme and the initial condition of the renormalization flow equation; once fixed, these yield scheme-dependent dynamical tidal Love numbers. Extensions to neutron stars and modified gravity are outlined.

Significance. If the ambiguities are shown to survive explicit matching to the exact low-frequency MST expansions, the result would highlight a substantive subtlety in EFT renormalization for tidal responses, with direct consequences for post-Newtonian waveform modeling. The bridging of two distinct formalisms is a methodological strength, but the persistence of scheme dependence after matching to exact solutions requires stronger justification than is currently provided.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4] §4 (renormalization flow equation and matching): The manuscript asserts that the initial condition of the flow equation remains unfixed by the MST matching, yet provides no explicit demonstration that the low-frequency asymptotic expansion of the exact Regge-Wheeler/Zerilli solutions (which uniquely determines the tidal field and response) fails to supply a concrete boundary condition at the matching scale. This is load-bearing for the claim of inevitable ambiguities.
  2. [§5] §5 (dynamical tidal Love numbers): The reported scheme-dependent numbers are presented as physical outputs once ambiguities are fixed, but the text does not show why different renormalization schemes cannot be related by a field redefinition or why the MST-derived boundary condition cannot eliminate the remaining freedom in the flow-equation initial condition.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states the central result but does not reference the specific sections or equations where the renormalization scheme and flow equation are introduced.
  2. [§3] Notation for the renormalized response function is introduced without a clear table or equation summarizing its dependence on the two free parameters.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their detailed and thoughtful report. Their comments help clarify the presentation of the renormalization ambiguities in our matching between the MST formalism and worldline EFT. Below we respond point by point to the major comments, indicating the revisions we will make to address the concerns.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (renormalization flow equation and matching): The manuscript asserts that the initial condition of the flow equation remains unfixed by the MST matching, yet provides no explicit demonstration that the low-frequency asymptotic expansion of the exact Regge-Wheeler/Zerilli solutions (which uniquely determines the tidal field and response) fails to supply a concrete boundary condition at the matching scale. This is load-bearing for the claim of inevitable ambiguities.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit demonstration is needed to show why the low-frequency MST expansion does not fix the flow-equation initial condition. The manuscript discusses the matching but does not include a side-by-side comparison of the asymptotic coefficients. In the revised version we will add a new paragraph (or short subsection) in §4 that extracts the leading low-frequency terms from the exact Regge-Wheeler/Zerilli solutions, matches them to the worldline EFT operators, and demonstrates that the scheme-dependent counterterms and the choice of renormalization scale remain free parameters after this matching. This will make the load-bearing claim fully explicit. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (dynamical tidal Love numbers): The reported scheme-dependent numbers are presented as physical outputs once ambiguities are fixed, but the text does not show why different renormalization schemes cannot be related by a field redefinition or why the MST-derived boundary condition cannot eliminate the remaining freedom in the flow-equation initial condition.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the current text does not explicitly rule out a field-redefinition equivalence between schemes or show why the MST boundary condition leaves residual freedom in the initial condition. In the revision we will expand the discussion in §5 to (i) argue that local field redefinitions in the worldline EFT can absorb only a subset of the counterterms and cannot remove the non-local contributions generated by the renormalization flow, and (ii) show that the MST matching fixes the physical tidal response coefficients but does not constrain the arbitrary constant that sets the initial value of the flow equation at the chosen renormalization scale. If the referee has a concrete field redefinition in mind that would connect the schemes, we would be grateful for the suggestion and will address it directly. revision: partial

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full rationale

The paper connects the MST formalism (exact solutions to Regge-Wheeler/Zerilli equations) with worldline EFT via matching in the low-frequency regime. It explicitly identifies and discusses renormalization-scheme and initial-condition ambiguities in the tidal response function, then reports the resulting scheme-dependent dynamical tidal Love numbers after those choices are fixed. This structure does not reduce any claimed prediction to an input by construction, nor does it rely on load-bearing self-citations or imported uniqueness theorems. The derivation remains self-contained, with the matching procedure supplying independent content from the exact MST asymptotics rather than tautological redefinition of the output.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 3 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the validity of the low-frequency matching between two established formalisms and on the existence of a renormalization flow equation whose initial condition is not fixed by the physics alone.

free parameters (2)
  • renormalization scheme
    Choice of scheme directly alters the renormalized tidal response function and the resulting Love numbers.
  • initial condition of renormalization flow equation
    Arbitrary starting value of the flow that propagates into the final scheme-dependent numbers.
axioms (3)
  • domain assumption Low-frequency regime approximation for tidal perturbations of static spherically symmetric black holes
    Invoked to justify the perturbative expansion and matching procedure.
  • standard math Validity of MST method for analytical black-hole perturbations in GR
    Used as the exact analytical input for the matching.
  • domain assumption Applicability of worldline EFT in the post-Newtonian regime for binary dynamics
    Provides the effective description into which the tidal response is matched.

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