Kerr scattering coefficients via isomonodromy

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2015)144zbMATH Open1388.83513arXiv1506.06588MaRDI QIDQ2636152FDOQ2636152

Authors: Bruno Carneiro Da Cunha, Fábio Novaes 

Publication date: 31 May 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the scattering of a massless scalar field in a generic Kerr background. Using a particular gauge choice based on the current conservation of the radial equation, we give a generic formula for the scattering coefficient in terms of the composite monodromy parameter $sigma$ between the inner and the outer horizons. Using the isomonodromy flow, we calculate $sigma$ exactly in terms of the Painlev'e V $au$-function. We also show that the eigenvalue problem for the angular equation (spheroidal harmonics) can be calculated using the same techniques. We use recent developments relating the Painlev'e V $au$-function to Liouville irregular conformal blocks to claim that this scattering problem is solved in the combinatorial sense, with known expressions for the $au$-function near the critical points.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06588

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesconformal and W symmetryintegrable equations in physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Black holes (83C57)

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• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions

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