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Fermionic greybody factors and strong gravitational lensing by Lorentz-violating global monopole

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Pith's one-line read A Lorentz-violating global-monopole black hole yields calculable fermion greybody factors, relativistic-image positions, and shadows as functions of the LV parameter and monopole charge.

desk verdict The submission is not reviewable: the body is a different cond-mat paper, so none of the abstract's claims about fermionic greybody factors, lensing, or shadows have any support in the document. read the letter →

arxiv 2508.14861 v1 pith:3W23BKJU submitted 2025-08-20 gr-qc

F. M. Belchior , R. V. Maluf , A. R. M. Oliveira , A. Yu. Petrov , P. J. Porfírio This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords greybodyfactorsDiracequationRarita-SchwingerglobalmonopoleLorentzviolationKalb-Ramondgravitystronggravitationallensingblackholeshadow
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The reading

This paper sets out a complete set of observational signatures for a black hole whose spacetime is modified in two ways at once: it carries a global monopole, and it lives in a self-interacting Kalb-Ramond gravity theory that breaks Lorentz symmetry. The authors derive greybody factors for spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 fermions by separating the Dirac and Rarita-Schwinger equations and solving the angular part analytically, then use the tortoise coordinate to turn the radial equations into Schrödinger-like barrier problems. In the same background they compute the strong-field bending of light, the positions and magnifications of the resulting relativistic images, and the black-hole shadow. The payoff is that every one of these observables becomes an explicit function of the Lorentz-violating parameter and the monopole charge, so the model produces quantitative predictions that can be compared with black-hole observations.

What carries the argument

Separability of the spinor equations is the load-bearing device: analytical solutions of the angular part of the Dirac and Rarita-Schwinger equations in the LV monopole background allow the radial equations to be decoupled using the tortoise coordinate. The resulting one-dimensional Schrödinger-like potentials directly yield the greybody factors. On the photon side, the strong-deflection-limit expansion of the bending angle is the machine that converts the metric into observable image positions, magnifications, and the shadow silhouette.

What would settle it

Pick a fixed value of the LV parameter and monopole charge, numerically integrate the separated radial equations, and check whether the resulting greybody factors and shadow radius reproduce the known Schwarzschild/global-monopole limits when the LV parameter is sent to zero; independently, impose the Rarita-Schwinger constraint equations in this metric and see whether they require an algebraic condition not used in the paper. If the constraints fail, the angular solution cannot describe a propagating spin-3/2 mode.

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Core claim

The paper claims that, in this Lorentz-violating global-monopole spacetime, fermionic greybody factors are computable from a clean separation of the Dirac and Rarita-Schwinger equations: the angular equations are solved analytically, and the radial equations decouple in the tortoise coordinate into Schrödinger-like forms whose barrier transmission gives the greybody factors. It further claims that the strong-field deflection angle of photons can be worked out explicitly, yielding expressions for the positions and magnifications of relativistic images, and that the shadow boundary can be computed and depends on both the Lorentz-violating parameter and the monopole charge. The intended claim i

Load-bearing premise

The whole derivation rests on a clean separation of the Dirac and Rarita-Schwinger equations in this spacetime, with an analytically solvable angular equation and a consistent spin-3/2 field; if that separation fails or picks up extra constraints, the greybody factors no longer follow.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Fermion greybody factors, and therefore Hawking-emission spectra, shift by continuous amounts as the Lorentz-violating parameter and the monopole charge vary, so the model predicts departures from standard global-monopole black-hole radiation.
  • Relativistic-image positions and magnifications computed from the strong-field bending angle give concrete numbers that strong-lensing observations could in principle check.
  • The shadow radius and shape are predicted as functions of the two parameters, giving a direct observable link between Lorentz violation and horizon-scale images.
  • Setting the LV parameter to zero should recover the standard global-monopole (or Schwarzschild) results, so the paper's formulas form a parameter family of earlier known cases.
  • The same tortoise-coordinate Schrödinger-potential route works for spin 1/2 and spin 3/2, meaning both Fermi sectors can be treated in one framework.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • An implicit consequence: shadow-radius or image-position measurements could be inverted into bounds on the Lorentz-violating parameter and monopole charge; the paper derives the mapping but does not itself produce an experimental bound.
  • The paper's separation assumption for the Rarita-Schwinger system is nontrivial; if consistency conditions for spin-3/2 propagation in a curved background restrict the parameter space, the greybody-factor expressions would hold only on that restricted submanifold.
  • Because greybody factors and lensing both depend on the same two parameters, the two observables are not independent—a future consistency test would be to see whether a single pair of LV parameter and monopole charge simultaneously fits radiation and image data.
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3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript, arXiv:2508.14861, presents an abstract announcing a study of fermionic greybody factors, strong-field gravitational lensing, relativistic image positions and magnifications, and shadow observables for a black hole with a global monopole in self-interacting Kalb-Ramond gravity with Lorentz violation. The claimed method is separation of the Dirac and Rarita-Schwinger equations into radial and angular parts, analytic solution of the angular equation, and derivation of Schrödinger-like radial equations in a tortoise coordinate. The supplied full text, however, is the body of a different arXiv preprint, arXiv:2508.14862, titled 'Area swept and winding angle of chiral active particles,' by different authors, on chiral active matter. That text contains none of the metric, field equations, separation ansatz, effective potentials, deflection integrals, or shadow formulas announced in the abstract. As submitted, no part of the claimed derivation is available for inspection.

Significance. If the announced results were correct and fully derived, they would provide a concrete family of gravitational observables (greybody factors, relativistic image positions and magnifications, and shadow boundaries) depending on the Lorentz-violating parameter and the global monopole charge, extending the standard global monopole and Schwarzschild results. Such results could in principle be used to constrain Lorentz violation with black hole observations. However, the current document contains no derivations, no equations beyond those of the unrelated active-matter preprint, and no quantitative predictions that can be checked. The only significant methodological point that can be assessed from the abstract is the nontrivial nature of Rarita-Schwinger separability in curved spacetime, which is asserted without supporting evidence. No machine-checked proofs, reproducible code, or independently checkable formulas are present.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract / Full text] The entire body of the submitted manuscript is a different paper (arXiv:2508.14862) on chiral active particles by I. Santra, U. Basu, and S. Sabhapandit. It does not contain the metric of the Lorentz-violating global monopole, the Kalb-Ramond field equations, the Dirac or Rarita-Schwinger equations in this background, any separation of variables, any effective potential, any deflection integral, or any shadow formula. Every substantive claim in the abstract—fermionic greybody factors, strong-field deflection, relativistic image positions and magnifications, shadow size and its dependence on the LV parameter and monopole charge—is therefore unsupported by the supplied document. This is a load-bearing missing-support issue and cannot be remedied by minor editing.
  2. [Abstract, spin-3/2 separability] The abstract asserts that the Dirac and Rarita-Schwinger equations are separated into radial and angular equations and that the angular equation is solved analytically. For a spin-3/2 Rarita-Schwinger field in curved spacetime, separability is not generic: the field obeys constraint equations whose consistency can impose nontrivial conditions on the background or require special algebraic structures. The submitted text provides no metric, no gauge choice, and no demonstration that such a separation is possible for this particular Lorentz-violating global monopole spacetime. Without that, the claimed Schrödinger-like potentials and greybody factors do not follow. This is the key physical precondition of the announced derivation and it is entirely unchecked.
  3. [Abstract, observables and definitions] Even at the level of the abstract, the objects named (greybody factors, angular deflection in the strong-field limit, positions and magnifications of relativistic images, shadow of the black hole) are not defined by any displayed equations, and no comparison is made with the known Schwarzschild or global-monopole limits. Consequently the paper gives the reader no way to verify the claimed functional dependence on the Lorentz-violating parameter and monopole charge, nor to assess whether the results reduce correctly in the standard limits. This absence of all technical content is a central failure of the submission, not a presentation issue.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Metadata / title page] The arXiv listing (title, abstract, and claimed subject) does not match the authors and title of the supplied body. The manuscript must be associated with the correct full text if it is to be evaluated at all.
  2. [References] The reference list in the supplied body concerns active Brownian particles, run-and-tumble motion, and related stochastic processes; it contains none of the expected references to Kalb-Ramond gravity, global monopoles, greybody factors, or strong-field lensing. This is consistent with the body being a different paper and should be resolved before any further review.

Circularity Check

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No circularity can be established because the supplied full text does not contain the claimed derivation; the abstract describes a normal parameter-to-observable calculation.

full rationale

The supplied full text is arXiv:2508.14862, 'Area swept and winding angle of chiral active particles' (Santra, Basu, Sabhapandit), which is an unrelated cond-mat paper. It contains none of the metric, field equations, Dirac/Rarita-Schwinger equations, separation ansatz, effective potentials, deflection integrals, image-position formulas, or shadow expressions named in the abstract of arXiv:2508.14861. Under the review rule that all manuscript text is in-scope, this is an explicit missing-support flag: every substantive derivation claimed in the abstract (greybody factors, strong-field lensing, relativistic images, shadows) is unattested in the body text. However, absence of support is not circularity. The abstract itself presents a standard derivation direction: the Lorentz-violating parameter and monopole charge enter as theory inputs, and the claimed observables (greybody factors, deflection angle, image positions, magnifications, shadow radius) are said to be functions of those inputs. There is no fitted parameter renamed as a prediction, no definition of an input in terms of an output, no load-bearing self-citation chain, and no equation that reduces to its own input by construction. Because no portion of the claimed derivation is present, no specific circular reduction can be quoted or exhibited. The mismatch between the abstract and the supplied full text is a serious correctness/integrity concern, but it does not meet the definition of circularity used here. Therefore the circularity score is 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The abstract is all that was usable. No free parameters are evident: the Lorentz-violating parameter and the monopole charge are theory inputs with physical meaning, scanned to show dependence, not numbers fitted to data. The axioms listed are the background solution, the separability of the fermion equations, and the standard strong-field lensing formalism, all invoked without derivation in the abstract. No new particles, forces, or dimensions are introduced.

assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption The Lorentz-violating global monopole background in self-interacting Kalb-Ramond gravity is a valid black hole spacetime on which to run the analysis.
    The abstract takes this metric as the starting point ('a black hole with global monopole in self-interacting Kalb-Ramond gravity'); the metric itself is not derived in the abstract and is presumably imported from prior Kalb-Ramond literature.
  • domain assumption The Dirac and Rarita-Schwinger equations separate into radial and angular parts in this background, with analytically solvable angular equations and consistent spin 3/2 dynamics.
    The abstract states 'separating these equations into sets of radial and angular equations'; for spin 3/2 fields in curved spacetime this requires consistency conditions, which are not stated. This is the most fragile step in the claimed derivation.
  • standard math The standard strong-field limit lensing formalism (expansion of the deflection angle in the impact parameter) applies to this spacetime.
    The abstract says 'we calculate the angular deflection of light in the strong field limit' and derives image positions and magnifications from it; the formalism is standard (Bozza-type), but its applicability to this specific metric is assumed.

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In this work, we study the greybody factors (GFs) of spin 1/2 and spin 3/2 fermions for a black hole with global monopole in self-interacting Kalb-Ramond gravity with Lorentz symmetry violation. For our purpose, we consider the Dirac and Rarita-Schwinger equations in curved spacetime by proceeding with separating these equations into sets of radial and angular equations. Using the analytical solution of the angular equation, the Schr\"{o}dinger-like wave equations with potentials are derived by decoupling the radial wave equations using the tortoise coordinate. Moreover, we calculate the angular deflection of light in the strong field limit. With the expression for angular deflection in the strong field limit, we compute the positions as well as magnification of the respective relativistic images. We compute the shadows cast by the Lorentz-violating (LV) black hole with a global monopole and analyze how the LV parameter and the monopole charge affect the shadows.

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