arxiv: 2508.04577 · v4 · submitted 2025-08-06 · 🌀 gr-qc

Particle dynamics around an electrically charged Kiselev black hole embedded in quintessence

Vitalie Lungu , Marina-Aura Dariescu , Cristian Stelea This is my paper

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keywords Kiselev black holequintessencecharged black holeparticle orbitsperiapsis shifteffective potentialcircular orbitsgeneral relativity

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Charged particles can exhibit retrograde periapsis shifts around an electrically charged Kiselev black hole in quintessence, while uncharged ones always precess prograde.

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The paper constructs a new static spherically symmetric solution for an electrically charged black hole embedded in charged quintessence fluid as a direct electric extension of the Kiselev geometry. It derives the effective potential governing charged test particle motion and classifies the resulting orbits while examining the stability of circular orbits. The central result is that bounded orbits always display prograde periapsis shifts for neutral particles, yet the shift direction can reverse to retrograde when the test particle carries charge. A sympathetic reader would care because this shows how electric charge couples to the quintessence background to modify orbital precession, offering a concrete way to distinguish charged from neutral dynamics in exotic spacetimes.

Core claim

The authors introduce a new solution describing a static, spherically symmetric and electrically charged black hole embedded in a charged quintessence fluid, which corresponds to an electric generalization of the Kiselev geometry. They derive the effective potential and analyze the various types of orbits followed by charged particles, with special attention to circular orbits and their stability. They found that for uncharged particles the periapsis shifts for bounded orbits is always prograde. However, for charged test particles the periapsis shifts can become retrograde in some cases.

What carries the argument

The effective potential for charged particle motion in the new electrically charged Kiselev metric with quintessence, which determines radial turning points, orbit classification, and stability of circular orbits.

If this is right

Bounded orbits of charged particles can display retrograde periapsis precession depending on the relative signs and magnitudes of charges.
Stability conditions for circular orbits change when the test particle charge is nonzero.
The shape of the effective potential permits new classes of orbits, including those with retrograde precession, that are absent for neutral particles.
Periapsis shift measurements could in principle distinguish the electric charge of the central object from the quintessence contribution.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

Numerical integration of trajectories could map the precise charge thresholds at which the precession direction flips.
The result suggests possible new signatures in the timing of charged matter orbiting supermassive black holes surrounded by dark-energy-like fluids.
Similar orbit analyses might be applied to other charged solutions in modified gravity or dark-energy models to check for retrograde precession.

Load-bearing premise

The chosen static spherically symmetric line element together with the electric and quintessence stress-energy tensors must satisfy the Einstein-Maxwell equations.

What would settle it

Direct substitution of the proposed metric ansatz and the chosen stress-energy tensors into the Einstein-Maxwell field equations; any residual nonzero component would show the solution is not valid.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2508.04577 by Cristian Stelea, Marina-Aura Dariescu, Vitalie Lungu.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: The effective potential (16) with the metric function (5), for k = 0.01 and different values of U (left panel) and for U = 0.5 and different values of k (right panel). The other numerical values are: M = 1, ε = −2 and L = √ 6. The potential, which has a minimum value between two maxima, allows bound orbits as the ones given in the figure 4. These bounded orbits exhibit oscillations between the extremal dis… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: The expressions of A and ∆ϕ for: Schwarzschild (S), Reissner-Nordstrom (RN), Kiselev (K) and chargeless particle in charged Kiselev (Ku). The numerical values are: M = 1, Q = 0.6, w = −2/3, x = 0.3, k = 0.0003 . 2.3.4 Charged particles around the electrically charged Kiselev black hole The case of a charged particle is much more complicated and one has to start with the potential part of the Hamiltonian as… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: The expression of A for charged particle with the Hamiltonian defined in (24) for ε = 1 (left panel) and ε = −1 (right panel). The other numerical values used here are M = 1 and U = 0.3. Finally, one may notice that, depending on the particle’s energy, the periapsis shift can be either positive (as in the left panel of the figure 4) or negative (as in the right panel of the figure 4). The red and green dot… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Parametric plot of a bounded trajectory of the charged particle trapped by the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Parametric plot of a bounded trajectory of the charged particle trapped by the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Left panel. Contour Plot of A for the allowed ranges of r and B0 and k = 0.02. Right panel. Contour Plot of A for the allowed ranges of r and k and B0 = 0.04. 14 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_6.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

We introduce and study a new solution describing a static, spherically symmetric and electrically charged black hole embedded in a charged quintessence fluid, which corresponds to an electric generalization of the Kiselev geometry. We derive the effective potential and analyze the various types of orbits followed by charged particles. A special attention is given to circular orbits and their stability. We found that for uncharged particles the periapsis shifts for bounded orbits is always prograde. However, for charged test particles the periapsis shifts can become retrograde in some cases.

Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

The paper adds electric charge to the Kiselev geometry and reports that charged test particles can show retrograde periapsis shifts while uncharged ones stay prograde.

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The paper presents an electric generalization of the Kiselev black hole embedded in quintessence and finds that charged test particles can have retrograde periapsis shifts for bounded orbits, while uncharged particles always show prograde shifts. What is new is the addition of electric charge to the background and the resulting change in the effective potential for charged particles. The work derives the metric, computes the effective potential including the Lorentz force, and studies different orbit types with special focus on circular orbits and their stability. The retrograde result for charged cases is presented as a distinction from the neutral literature. The analysis of orbits and stability is carried out carefully using standard methods in the field. They identify parameter ranges where the sign flip occurs, which adds a concrete observation to the discussion of particle dynamics around these spacetimes. The soft spot is the confirmation that the metric solves the field equations. The stress-test points out that explicit substitution into the Einstein-Maxwell equations with the quintessence tensor is needed but not obviously shown in the abstract. If the full paper has a clear verification step, that concern goes away; otherwise the orbit calculations rest on an unverified background. Given that the reader's assessment is based on the abstract, this is the main area to double-check. This paper is for people working on exact black hole solutions with dark energy components or on charged particle motion in strong gravity. It could be useful for someone exploring how electromagnetic effects modify precession in exotic metrics. I would send it to peer review. The new solution and the periapsis finding are specific and worth a referee's time to verify the details.

Referee Report

1 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper presents a new exact solution for a static spherically symmetric electrically charged black hole embedded in a charged quintessence fluid, generalizing the Kiselev metric. It derives the effective potential governing charged test-particle motion, classifies orbit types, and examines circular-orbit stability. The central claim is that bounded orbits exhibit strictly prograde periapsis shifts for uncharged particles, while charged particles can display retrograde shifts for suitable choices of charge and quintessence parameters.

Significance. If the metric is shown to satisfy the Einstein-Maxwell equations with the stated sources, the demonstration that charge can flip the sign of the periapsis shift would constitute a concrete, falsifiable prediction distinguishing charged versus neutral dynamics in quintessence spacetimes. Such a result could inform models of charged-particle accretion or electromagnetic signatures near black holes in dark-energy backgrounds. The absence of explicit field-equation verification, however, leaves the load-bearing foundation unconfirmed.

major comments (1)

[Metric derivation section] The section introducing the metric (presumably §2) states that the line element solves the Einstein-Maxwell equations with Maxwell and quintessence stress-energy tensors, yet provides no explicit substitution of the metric components into the field equations to verify that the Einstein tensor equals 8π(T^EM + T^quint). This verification is required before the effective-potential analysis and the reported prograde/retrograde periapsis claims can be considered reliable.

minor comments (2)

The abstract asserts that retrograde shifts occur “in some cases” for charged particles; the manuscript should specify the precise ranges of the quintessence state parameter, density scale, and particle charge-to-mass ratio that produce this sign change, ideally with a supporting figure or table.
Notation for the effective potential and the conserved energy and angular momentum should be introduced with explicit definitions (e.g., Eq. numbers) before the orbit classification begins.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading of the manuscript and for identifying the need for explicit verification of the field equations. We agree that this step is important for establishing the validity of the solution and will incorporate it in the revision.

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Referee: [Metric derivation section] The section introducing the metric (presumably §2) states that the line element solves the Einstein-Maxwell equations with Maxwell and quintessence stress-energy tensors, yet provides no explicit substitution of the metric components into the field equations to verify that the Einstein tensor equals 8π(T^EM + T^quint). This verification is required before the effective-potential analysis and the reported prograde/retrograde periapsis claims can be considered reliable.

Authors: We agree that an explicit verification strengthens the presentation. In the revised manuscript we will insert a dedicated calculation (either in §2 or as an appendix) that substitutes the metric components into the Einstein tensor and confirms equality with 8π(T^EM + T^quint) for the chosen electromagnetic and quintessence stress-energy tensors. This will be done prior to the effective-potential and orbital analysis, thereby addressing the referee’s concern directly. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: standard metric-to-orbit derivation with independent content.

full rationale

The paper starts from an assumed static spherically symmetric line element incorporating electric charge and quintessence contributions, solves the Einstein-Maxwell equations to obtain the metric function, then derives the effective potential for charged test particles and analyzes bounded orbits to extract periapsis precession. The reported result that uncharged particles yield only prograde shifts while charged particles can yield retrograde shifts follows directly from explicit integration of the orbit equation or effective-potential turning points; it is not obtained by fitting a parameter to the target data, by renaming a known pattern, or by a self-citation chain that imports the conclusion. The construction therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks and receives the default non-circularity finding.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 2 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on the Einstein-Maxwell equations with a charged quintessence source, a static spherically symmetric metric ansatz, and standard charged-particle equations of motion; the quintessence fluid itself is an extension of a postulated dark-energy component.

free parameters (2)

Quintessence state parameter and density scale
Parameters that characterize the equation of state and amplitude of the charged quintessence fluid, chosen to satisfy the field equations.
Black-hole and fluid electric charges
Electric charge parameters introduced to generalize the original Kiselev solution.

axioms (2)

standard math Einstein field equations coupled to Maxwell and charged-quintessence stress-energy tensors
The derivation assumes the standard general-relativity field equations hold for this combined matter content.
domain assumption Static spherically symmetric metric ansatz
The line element is restricted to the static spherical form before solving the equations.

invented entities (1)

Charged quintessence fluid no independent evidence
purpose: To provide a charged dark-energy-like background surrounding the black hole
Quintessence is a postulated fluid; the charged version is introduced without independent observational support in this work.

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