Black Holes in Lorentz-Violating Gravity: Thermodynamics, Geometry, and Particle Dynamics

TL;DR

This paper explores the thermodynamics, geometry, and particle dynamics of black holes in Lorentz-violating gravity, revealing universal thermodynamic behaviors, topological features, and modified particle orbits influenced by Lorentz-violating parameters.

Contribution

It provides the first comprehensive analysis of black hole thermodynamics, topology, and particle motion in Lorentz-violating gravity, uncovering universal relations and distinctive dynamical signatures.

Findings

Ruppeiner curvature remains universally negative, indicating dominant attractive microstructure interactions.

Photon spheres act as topological defects with distinct charges.

Lorentz-violating parameters significantly affect stable orbits and particle trajectories.

Abstract

We investigate the thermodynamics, topology, and geometry of black holes in Lorentz-violating gravity. Modifications in the theory by perturbative parameter lead to coupled changes in horizon structure and thermodynamic behaviour, allowing us to derive generalized universal relations and explore implications for the Weak Gravity Conjecture. The thermodynamic topology reveals distinct topological charges, with photon spheres identified as robust topological defects. Our analysis shows that the Ruppeiner curvature remains universally negative across thermodynamic ensembles, indicating dominant attractive interactions among microstructures. This ensemble-independent behaviour highlights a fundamental thermodynamic universality in Lorentz-violating settings. Together, these results provide a consistent and rich framework for understanding black hole microphysics and gravitational consistency in modified theories. We further study the motion of timelike test particles in these black hole spacetimes by analyzing the effective potential shaped by the Lorentz-violating couplings. The resulting dynamics reveal the existence of bound orbits and stable circular trajectories, with the location of the innermost stable circular orbit and turning points significantly influenced by the parameters $\ell_{1,2}$, and the cosmological constant. Numerical simulations of trajectories in the $x-y,\,x-z$, and 3D planes show precessing, bounded, and plunging orbits, depending on the particle's specific energy and angular momentum. These results highlight how Lorentz-violating effects alter the structure of geodesic motion and provide potential observational signatures in the dynamics of massive particles near black holes.