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Abstract:We found sets of exact analytic quasi-stationary states of a massive scalar field in a dyonic Kerr-Sen black hole~(DKSBH) background in the maximally extended spacetime region. A central novelty is the use of horizon-regular ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates, which enables a direct and unambiguous imposition of the ingoing boundary condition at the horizon. The exact radial solutions are in the form of confluent Heun functions. Imposing regularity at spatial infinity enforces a series truncation condition, yielding an exact quantization of the quasi-stationary frequencies. The spectrum exhibits a rich multi-branch structure, which we show splits into two distinct classes: modes that are insensitive to the black hole spin and charges and modes that explicitly depend on them. We uncover a clear asymmetry between co-rotating and counter-rotating configurations, driven by the spin-angular momentum coupling, as well as a systematic shift of the spectrum induced by electric and magnetic charges. The physical branches exhibit a universal behavior: modes with positive real frequency possess positive imaginary parts and therefore grow exponentially in time, whereas modes with negative real frequency are damped and decay. This suggests that positive-energy excitations in the region behind the outer horizon including the inner region of the inner horizon which contains the closed-timelike-curve, exponentially destabilize the background spacetime, supporting Hawking's chronology protection conjecture. In addition, the purely imaginary modes contain no oscillatory component and hence do not propagate through the spacetime, preventing traveling excitations along closed timelike curves and remaining consistent with the conjecture.

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From: Piyabut Burikham [view email]
[v1] Mon, 1 Jun 2026 08:23:27 UTC (212 KB)
[v2] Thu, 4 Jun 2026 14:52:23 UTC (212 KB)