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In modified gravity, dynamical Schwarzschild black holes under scalar waves exhibit non-thermal particle creation while preserving the generalized second law and forming stable zero-temperature remnants at the extremal bound.
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Dynamical Black Hole Thermodynamics in Modified Gravity
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Core claim
The Generalized Second Law remains preserved by decoupling first-order reversible kinematic-horizon fluctuations from second-order irreversible entropy growth using the Raychaudhuri equation, while the massive vector field halts evaporation as mass approaches the extremal bound M_G to Q_G yielding a stable zero-temperature remnant.
Load-bearing premise
The scalar gravitational wave breathing mode can be imposed on the Schwarzschild background in MOG while treating the evolution as quasi-adiabatic without significant backreaction from the created particles or the vector field altering the metric at leading order.
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Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger
free parameters (1)
- vector charge Q_G
axioms (2)
- domain assumption Raychaudhuri equation governs null geodesic congruence in MOG
- ad hoc to paper Quasi-adiabatic evolution under scalar breathing mode
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We investigate the dynamical and thermodynamic evolution of a Schwarzschild black hole in Modified Gravity (MOG) perturbed by a scalar gravitational wave breathing mode. By evaluating the linearized modified Einstein equations at the near-horizon boundary, we reduce the spatial wave operator to a closed-form temporal ordinary differential equation, thereby explicitly deriving the damped-oscillatory kinematics of the scalar strain. Using a quasi-adiabatic approximation, we show that the effective surface gravity and dynamical temperature are linearly modulated by the perturbation amplitude and velocity. These rapid geometric fluctuations break the semiclassical adiabatic regime, triggering explicitly non-thermal particle creation analogous to the dynamical Casimir effect. Furthermore, we resolve a local thermodynamic paradox concerning apparent horizon area fluctuations. We prove that first-order geometric perturbations $\mathcal{O}(h_b)$ are fully reversible kinematic artifacts, whereas irreversible entropy generation is a strictly second-order $\mathcal{O}(h_b^2)$ effect driven by the Raychaudhuri expansion, thereby preserving the Generalized Second Law. Finally, we apply these mechanisms to the black hole information paradox. We show that treating the MOG deformation parameter as a quantum-scale running coupling, $\alpha(M)$, mathematically decouples the effective gravitational charge from linear mass scaling. This dynamically forces the evaporating black hole toward the extremal limit ($M_G \to Q_G$), smoothly quenching the Hawking temperature to zero and yielding a thermodynamically stable, information-preserving remnant.
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