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Gihwan Nam

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Exact horizon response and charge ensembles of Majumdar--Papapetrou black holes

We determine the electrostatic Dirichlet-to-Neumann map of an arbitrary four-dimensional Majumdar--Papapetrou spacetime. For a minimally coupled spectator Maxwell field, the potentials of the disconnected extremal horizons may be prescribed independently, and the resulting flux charges are related by an exact capacitance matrix. If the centers have masses $M_A$ and coordinate separations $R_{AB}$, its entries are $C_{AA}=M_A+\sum_{B\ne A}M_AM_B/R_{AB}$ and $C_{AB}=-M_AM_B/R_{AB}$. The matrix is a positive diagonal term plus the weighted Laplacian of the complete graph of horizons, giving an exact common-mode and differential-mode decomposition of the field energy. The grounded Dirichlet Green function shows that a point charge partitions its flux among infinity and the horizons according to elementary harmonic measures. A direct translation of the multicenter Green function of Frolov and Zelnikov gives the diagonal completion used in their published Eq.~(68), whose component-resolved Gauss flux preserves the total horizon charge but generally transfers charge between horizons. The symmetric Green function that preserves every horizon charge instead contains the inverse of the full capacitance matrix. For a binary, the difference gives a finite, negative-semidefinite shift of the electrostatic self-energy and a corresponding exact self-force difference without an additional ultraviolet subtraction. We finally extend the response matrix, flux partition, and fixed-charge Green function to $D=n+3$ dimensions, where the graph weights acquire the universal factor $π^{n/2}/Γ(n/2)$.

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Constraining hyperonic relativistic mean-field models with rapidly rotating neutron stars

Motivated by the recent mass measurement of the black-widow pulsar PSR~J0952$-$0607 with $M=2.35\pm0.11\,M_\odot$, we investigate how the masses of heavy, rapidly rotating millisecond pulsars can be used to constrain relativistic mean-field (RMF) models containing hyperonic degrees of freedom. In our approach, hyperons are incorporated following the spin-flavor SU(6) symmetry scheme for the vector-meson couplings. We find that increasing the nonlinear $ω$-meson vector self-coupling parameter $ζ$ suppresses the hyperon fraction and can alter the onset ordering of the $Σ^-$ and $Ξ^-$ hyperons. By computing rotating neutron-star configurations at the observed spin frequency $707\,\mathrm{Hz}$ of PSR~J0952$-$0607, we identify RMF models compatible with this pulsar's observed lower-mass bound. Using an empirical relation for the maximum neutron star mass, the PSR~J0952$-$0607 observational contraint is mapped onto the allowed RMF parameter space in $n_0$, $m^\ast$, and $ζ$.

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Universal Relation for the Neutron Star Maximum Mass within Relativistic Mean-Field Theories

We obtain a universal relation for the neutron star maximum mass arising from a particular combination of the saturation density ($n_0$), the effective mass ($m^*$), and (when present) the vector meson self-coupling constant ($ζ$) within the relativistic mean-field model framework. Observations of massive neutron stars heavier than $\sim 2M_{\odot}$ have eliminated the softest equation of state from consideration and impose strong constraints on nuclear interactions used to model dense nuclear matter. To date there have been numerous attempts to refine relativistic mean-field models by including the presence of additional mesons, such as the delta meson, and couplings. We show that current RMF models, including our own constructions, exhibit a maximum neutron star mass that is primarily determined by the combination of the saturation density, the effective mass at saturation, and the vector meson self-coupling constant. When constraining the pure neutron matter equation of state using chiral effective field theory (ChEFT) at low densities, 250 parameter sets were generated to derive an empirical formula for the maximum mass of neutron stars and apply the formula with the present relativistic mean field models.

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