Gravitational Lensing Under the Effect of Weyl and Bumblebee Gravities: Applications of Gauss-Bonnet Theorem

TL;DR

This paper calculates photon deflection angles near black holes and wormholes in Weyl and bumblebee gravities using the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, revealing deviations from standard predictions and differences between gravity models.

Contribution

It introduces a novel application of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem to analyze photon deflection in Weyl and bumblebee gravity scenarios, including wormholes.

Findings

Deflection angles are affected by photon coupling to Weyl tensor.

Deviations from Schwarzschild black hole predictions are observed.

Bumblebee gravity predicts larger deflection angles for wormholes.

Abstract

In this paper, we use the Gauss Bonnet theorem to obtain the deflection angle by the photons coupled to Weyl tensor in a Schwarzschild black hole and Schwarzschild-like black hole in bumblebee gravity in the weak limit approximation. To do so, we first calculate the corresponding optical metrics, and then we find the Gaussian curvature to use in Gauss-Bonnet theorem, which is first done by Gibbons and Werner. Hence, in the leading order terms we show the deflection angle, that is affected by the coupling between the photon and Weyl tensor, and there is a deviation from the deflecting angle as compared with Schwarzschild black hole with Schwarzschild-like black hole in bumblebee gravity. Moreover, we investigate the deflection angle by Einstein-Rosen type wormhole in Weyl gravity and in bumblebee gravity. Interestingly, the deflection angle by Einstein-Rosen type wormhole in bumblebee gravity is found as larger than the the deflection angle by Einstein-Rosen type wormhole in Weyl gravity.