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Dr. Denys Dutykh

Dr. Denys Dutykh

Associate Professor · Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
Applied Mathematics

Applied mathematician working on water waves, tsunami modeling and spectral numerical methods. Since 2024 these tools also serve general relativity: quasinormal modes of black holes and wormholes.

∇²u = ∂²u/∂t²
∫∫∫ ∇ × F · dS
λ = 2πc/ω

Recent Publications

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PProc. R. Soc. A
Proc. R. Soc. A

Spectral Green functions for T-duality-regularized electrostatics in finite and bounded planar geometries

We develop a finite-size formulation of T-duality-deformed electrostatics in (2+1) dimensions. The T-duality form factor regularizes the ultraviolet behaviour of the planar static Green function, while finite volume and boundary conditions control the infrared sector. We first rederive the self-energy-subtracted infinite-plane interaction, which is finite at the origin and recovers the logarithmic Coulomb law at large distances. We then define the corresponding Green function on general domains via the spectral calculus of the Laplacian and work out explicit realizations on the square torus, the grounded half-plane and the grounded strip. The torus implements charge neutrality through zero-mode subtraction, whereas Dirichlet boundaries produce finite image and self-energy effects. Finally, we introduce an additive-constant-free running interaction dimension and show that the ultraviolet flow to one dimension survives in finite volume, while the infrared behaviour is geometry-dependent.

D. Batic, D. Dutykh2026
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EEur. Phys. J. Plus
Eur. Phys. J. Plus

A no-go result for regular GR-connected isotropic Morris–Thorne wormholes in f(R, T) = R + σRT gravity

We study the exact Morris–Thorne (MT) wormhole in the trace-curvature coupled theory f(R, T) = R + σRT, using the consistent variational formulation of relativistic perfect fluids in f(R, T) gravity. We ask whether this fixed geometry can be reconstructed from an isotropic perfect fluid on a branch regularly connected to the general relativistic limit. In Einstein form, the MT geometry requires a conserved effective source with unequal radial and tangential pressures. This already signals a tension with an isotropic physical fluid. We show that the tension becomes a genuine obstruction to tangential consistency. At the general relativistic order, the temporal and radial equations impose one isotropic seed, while the tangential equation imposes an incompatible one. Therefore, no regular GR-connected isotropic perfect-fluid branch can satisfy all component equations for the exact MT geometry. We also analyse the reduced temporal–radial branch as a diagnostic example, showing that the small-coupling expansion should be treated as a formal asymptotic diagnostic, with high-order coefficient diagnostics giving no evidence for a positive radius of convergence, and that the branch explicitly fails the tangential equation. Although the perturbative no-go result alone does not exclude disconnected finite-coupling branches, the radial–tangential consistency condition also rules out smooth, asymptotically decaying finite-coupling isotropic branches for the exact MT geometry. Thus, the regular isotropic inverse reconstruction fails once the full angular component of the field equations is imposed.

D. Batic, D. Dutykh, M.E. Sukaiti2026
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EEur. Phys. J. C
Eur. Phys. J. C

Scalar quasinormal modes of Schwarzschild–anti-de Sitter black holes: spectral analysis and a formal coefficient deformation

We study quasinormal modes (QNMs) of a minimally coupled massless scalar field on four-dimensional Schwarzschild–anti-de Sitter (SAdS) black holes using a Chebyshev spectral method. After compactifying the exterior domain, the radial problem is formulated as a quadratic matrix pencil in the dimensionless frequency. For the standard Dirichlet, or vanishing-field, boundary condition at the conformal AdS boundary, we reproduce the known scalar spectra across small, intermediate, and large black holes, including long overtone sequences and the expected approach to pure-AdS normal modes in the small black hole limit. We also impose a one-parameter relation between the slow and fast asymptotic coefficients. For a massless scalar in four dimensions, the slow branch lies outside the standard finite canonical energy domain. Because we neither construct a renormalized variational principle nor prove well-posedness of an evolution containing this branch, we present only the formal spectrum of the deformed radial problem. Each non-Dirichlet value examined yields an additional eigenvalue with positive imaginary part and hence, an exponentially growing separated formal mode. This does not establish a physical instability of the standard scalar theory. The interpolation parameter is representation-dependent. In a black-hole-independent conformal coordinate, the corresponding response coupling scales with the cube of the dimensionless horizon radius, so equal intermediate parameter values for different black-hole sizes do not represent the same boundary coupling.

D. Batic, A.S. Cornell, D. Dutykh2026
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Dr. Denys Dutykh
Dr. Denys Dutykh
Dr. Denys Dutykh
Dr. Denys Dutykh
Dr. Denys Dutykh
Dr. Denys Dutykh
Dr. Denys Dutykh

Dr. Denys Dutykh

Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics

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