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Analytic parity-violating greybody factors of a dynamical Chern-Simons black hole

Abstract

We study the low-frequency scattering of gravitational and pseudoscalar waves off a non-rotating black hole in dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity, where the axial (odd-parity) gravitational sector is irreducibly coupled to the dynamical pseudoscalar while the polar sector remains general relativistic. Working to first order in the dimensionless coupling zeta = (ell_CS/M)^4 and using matched asymptotic expansions, we obtain an exact closed form for the graviton-to-pseudoscalar conversion probability, d_2 = 3(pi^2-9)^2/8, and a high-precision reconstruction, in a proven transcendental basis, of the graviton greybody (absorption) asymmetry, kappa_2 = (21/80) pi^4 + (27/8) pi^2 - 89833/1536, for the quadrupole (ell=2) channel. Both reduce to combinations of pi^4, pi^2, and rational numbers, with no ln2 or odd-zeta terms in the reconstructed basis; the transmission-phase sector, by contrast, contains an analytically derived zeta(3)-9/8 static integral, while its overall matching prefactor is identified numerically. The leading reflection-phase asymmetry vanishes, so that no polarization rotation is imprinted on the reflected wave at leading low-frequency order, while a subleading O(omegazeta) asymmetry remains in the transmitted phase. The normalized flux asymmetries are numerically consistent with a 1/(Momega)^2 falloff in the geometric-optics limit, where the leading remaining flux effect is conversion loss. The matched-asymptotic results are checked against direct two-channel integration, while the one-dimensional integral determining kappa_2 is evaluated to high precision within an analytically controlled transcendental basis. The results provide analytic targets linking dCS parity violation in absorption and mode conversion to the axial/polar quasinormal-mode splitting.

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Abhishek Rout. 2026-10-07. Analytic parity-violating greybody factors of a dynamical Chern-Simons black hole. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10280

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