Schr\"odinger and Klein-Gordon oscillators in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity: Degree-one Confluent Heun polynomial correspondence
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Degree-one confluent Heun polynomials supply closed frequencies and an upper bound on angular momentum for Schrödinger and Klein-Gordon oscillators in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity with a global monopole.
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Core claim
In the lowest nontrivial case n=0, the degree-one Heun polynomial yields a closed analytic expression for the frequency and determines a finite upper bound on ℓ, dictated jointly by the EiBI deformation and the GM deficit. The resulting parametric correlations reveal a sharp geometric control of the spectrum. Applying the same method to the KG oscillator with a WYMM produces conditionally exact particle and antiparticle energies in closed form that exhibit perfect charge symmetry and dependence on the WYMM strength together with the EiBI parameter and the angular momentum constraint.
What carries the argument
The degree-one confluent Heun polynomial obtained by enforcing termination of the series solution to the radial equation after the first term.
Load-bearing premise
The radial equations reduce exactly to the confluent Heun equation and termination of the series at degree one produces normalizable bound states without instabilities or violation of the field equations.
What would settle it
Direct substitution of the derived closed-form frequency back into the original radial differential equation to check whether the Heun series indeed terminates and satisfies the equation for the claimed range of ℓ.
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We investigate Schr\"odinger and Klein-Gordon (KG) oscillators in the spacetime of a global monopole (GM) within Eddington inspired Born-Infeld (EiBI) gravity, including, in the relativistic sector, the coupling to a Wu-Yang magnetic monopole (WYMM). By reducing the radial equations to the confluent Heun form and enforcing termination of the Heun series, we obtain conditionally exact solutions in which the radial eigenfunctions truncate to polynomials of degree $(n+1)\geq 1$. This truncation imposes algebraic constraints that quantize the oscillator frequency and restrict the values allowed for the orbital angular momenta $\ell$. In the lowest nontrivial case $n=0$, the degree-one Heun polynomial yields a closed analytic expression for the frequency and determines a finite upper bound on $\ell$, dictated jointly by the EiBI deformation and the GM deficit. The resulting parametric correlations reveal a sharp geometric control of the spectrum: EiBI nonlinearities and the angular deficit fix the admissible bound states through polynomial truncation conditions. The confluent Heun correspondence is made explicit, providing a rigorous and reproducible framework for extracting analytical solutions from otherwise non-polynomial Heun structures. Applying the same method to the KG oscillator with a WYMM, we derive conditionally exact particle and antiparticle energies in a closed form. The relativistic spectrum exhibits perfect charge symmetry and a precise dependence on the WYMM strength, the EiBI parameter and the angular momentum constraint. To the best of our knowledge, this constitutes the first unified and fully consistent treatment of conditionally exact Schr\"odinger and Klein-Gordon oscillators in EiBI gravity based on a degree-one confluent Heun polynomial.
Editorial analysis
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Referee Report
Summary. The manuscript investigates Schrödinger and Klein-Gordon oscillators in the spacetime of a global monopole within Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity, including Wu-Yang magnetic monopole coupling in the relativistic sector. The radial equations are reduced to the confluent Heun equation; termination of the series at degree one for the lowest nontrivial case n=0 yields algebraic constraints that quantize the oscillator frequency, impose a finite upper bound on orbital angular momentum ℓ, and reveal parametric correlations controlled by the EiBI deformation parameter and the monopole deficit angle. The authors present closed-form expressions for frequencies and energies, claiming this provides the first unified treatment of such conditionally exact solutions via explicit Heun polynomial correspondence.
Significance. If the reductions are exact and the resulting polynomials are verified to solve the original radial operators while remaining normalizable under the modified measure, the work would supply analytic control over spectra in nonlinear gravitational backgrounds, illustrating how geometric parameters (EiBI nonlinearity and angular deficit) enforce quantization through truncation conditions. This could serve as a template for extracting exact solutions from otherwise intractable Heun structures in modified gravity.
major comments (2)
- [Section on n=0 termination and frequency expression] The central derivation asserts that the radial equations in the EiBI global-monopole metric reduce exactly to the confluent Heun equation, yet the manuscript provides no explicit back-substitution of the degree-one polynomial (after standard prefactors from the radial coordinate change) into the unreduced second-order radial ODE to confirm it satisfies the original operator identically. This verification is load-bearing for the claim of physically acceptable normalizable bound states.
- [Discussion of normalizability and boundary conditions] No computation of the norm integral is reported for the degree-one solution with respect to the proper radial measure induced by the metric (including the angular-deficit factor and any EiBI modifications to the volume element). Without this, it remains unclear whether the algebraic constraint produces square-integrable states or introduces divergences at large r, undermining the bound-state interpretation.
minor comments (2)
- [Introduction] The abstract refers to 'conditionally exact solutions' without a concise definition in the introduction; adding one sentence clarifying that these are solutions valid only when the truncation conditions on parameters are met would improve clarity.
- [Metric and field equations] Notation for the EiBI deformation parameter and deficit angle should be introduced once with explicit symbols in the metric ansatz section and used consistently thereafter to avoid ambiguity in the parametric correlations.
Simulated Author's Rebuttal
We thank the referee for the thorough review and valuable comments, which help improve the clarity and rigor of our work. We address the major comments point by point below, and indicate the revisions we will make to the manuscript.
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Referee: The central derivation asserts that the radial equations in the EiBI global-monopole metric reduce exactly to the confluent Heun equation, yet the manuscript provides no explicit back-substitution of the degree-one polynomial (after standard prefactors from the radial coordinate change) into the unreduced second-order radial ODE to confirm it satisfies the original operator identically. This verification is load-bearing for the claim of physically acceptable normalizable bound states.
Authors: We agree that an explicit verification by back-substituting the degree-one Heun polynomial into the original radial ODE would strengthen the manuscript. Although the reduction steps are detailed in the paper, the direct confirmation that the truncated solution satisfies the unreduced equation under the frequency constraint was not explicitly shown. In the revised version, we will include this calculation for the n=0 case, demonstrating that the proposed analytic solution fulfills the original differential equation identically. This addition will support the claim of conditionally exact solutions. revision: yes
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Referee: No computation of the norm integral is reported for the degree-one solution with respect to the proper radial measure induced by the metric (including the angular-deficit factor and any EiBI modifications to the volume element). Without this, it remains unclear whether the algebraic constraint produces square-integrable states or introduces divergences at large r, undermining the bound-state interpretation.
Authors: The referee correctly notes the absence of an explicit norm computation. In our analysis, the polynomial truncation ensures the appropriate asymptotic decay at large r, and the metric-induced measure (incorporating the deficit angle) is accounted for in the radial equation setup. However, to address this directly, we will add in the revision an evaluation of the normalization integral for the degree-one solutions, confirming square-integrability within the allowed ranges of the EiBI parameter and angular momentum bound. This will clarify that no divergences arise at infinity for the physically relevant parameter values. revision: yes
Circularity Check
Heun truncation conditions algebraically constrain frequency and ℓ from metric parameters
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[Abstract]
"In the lowest nontrivial case n=0, the degree-one Heun polynomial yields a closed analytic expression for the frequency and determines a finite upper bound on ℓ, dictated jointly by the EiBI deformation and the GM deficit."
The frequency is obtained by solving the algebraic termination condition that forces the Heun series to stop at degree one. Because this condition is written directly in terms of the oscillator frequency, ℓ, the EiBI parameter and the deficit angle (all of which already appear in the radial equation), the 'closed analytic expression' is simply the root of that constraint equation and does not constitute an independent derivation.
full rationale
The paper reduces the radial ODE to confluent Heun form and then imposes series termination at degree one to obtain a closed-form frequency and an upper bound on ℓ. This termination condition is an algebraic relation among the very parameters that enter the original radial equation (oscillator frequency, angular momentum, EiBI deformation parameter, and global-monopole deficit). The resulting expression is therefore the direct solution of that imposed constraint rather than an independent prediction extracted from the field equations or from an external benchmark. No explicit back-substitution into the unreduced radial operator or verification of square-integrability with the metric measure is described, leaving the claimed eigenfunction status dependent on the truncation ansatz itself. This constitutes a moderate circularity: the quantization is real but is generated by construction from the chosen termination requirement applied to input parameters.
Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger
free parameters (2)
- EiBI deformation parameter
- Global monopole deficit angle
axioms (1)
- domain assumption The line element for a global monopole in Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity permits separation of variables that reduces the radial oscillator equation to confluent Heun form.
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