Quantum amplitudes in black-hole evaporation: spins 1 and 2

Abstract: Quantum amplitudes for

s = 1

at Maxwell fields and for

s = 2

linearised gravitational wave perturbations of a spherically symmetric Einstein/massless scalar background, describing gravitational collapse to a black hole, are treated by analogy with a previous treatment of

s = 0

scalar-field perturbations of gravitational collapse at late times. In both the

s = 1

and

s = 2

cases, we isolate suitable 'co-ordinate' variables which can be taken as boundary data on a final space-like hypersurface

S i g m a_{F}

. For simplicity, we take the data on an initial pre-collapse surface

S i g m a_{I}

to be exactly spherically symmetric. The (large) Lorentzian proper-time interval between

S i g m a_{I}, S i g m a_{F}

, measured at spatial infinity, is denoted by

T

. The complexified classical boundary-value problem is expected to be well-posed, provide that the time interval

T

has been rotated into the complex:

T o m i d T m i d e x p (- i h e t a)

, for

0 < h e t a l e q p i / 2

. We calculate the second-variation classical Lorenztian action

S_{m c l a s s}^{(2)}

. Following Feynman, we recover the Lorentzian quantum amplitude by taking the limit as

h e t a o 0_{+}

of the semi-classical amplitude

e x p (i S_{m c l a s s}^{(2)})

. The boundary data for

s = 1

involve the Maxwell magnetic field; the data for

s = 2

involve the magnetic part of the Weyl curvature tensor. The magnetic boundary conditions are related to each other and to the natural

s = 1 o v e r 2

boundary conditions by supersymmetry.

Review text

Spin 1 and spin 2 perturbations of a background describing the gravitational collapse to a black hole are investigated, and the corresponding quantum amplitudes are obtained.

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