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Tidal Love numbers for regular black holes

Rui Wang·Qi-Long Shi·Wei Xiong·Peng-Cheng Li
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Tidal Love numbers (TLNs) characterize the response of compact objects to external tidal fields and vanish for classical Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes in general relativity. Nonvanishing TLNs therefore provide a potential observational window into beyond-classical physics. In this work, we present a unified and fully analytic study of the TLNs of three representative classes of regular black holes -- the Bardeen black hole, the black hole with sub-Planckian curvature, and the black hole arising in asymptotically safe gravity -- under scalar, vector, and axial gravitational perturbations. Employing a Green's function method combined with systematic perturbative expansions, we show that TLNs of regular black holes are generically nonzero and exhibit strong model and mode dependence. In many cases, higher-order corrections develop logarithmic scale dependence, closely resembling renormalization-group running in quantum field theory and revealing a scale-dependent tidal response absent in classical black holes. Our analysis demonstrates that the internal structure of regular black holes, including de Sitter or Minkowski cores and quantum-gravity-inspired modifications, leaves distinct fingerprints in their tidal properties. These results provide a comparative theoretical benchmark for assessing regular black-hole models and establish a basis for future phenomenological and observational studies with gravitational-wave detectors.

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Rui Wang, Qi-Long Shi, Wei Xiong, Peng-Cheng Li. 2026-04-14. Tidal Love numbers for regular black holes. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05767

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