Renormalized vacuum polarization of rotating black holes

DOI10.1142/S0218271815420079zbMATH Open1336.83026arXiv1502.01336MaRDI QIDQ2806501FDOQ2806501

Hugo R. C. Ferreira

Publication date: 18 May 2016

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantum field theory on rotating black hole spacetimes is plagued with technical difficulties. Here, we describe a general method to renormalize and compute the vacuum polarization of a quantum field in the Hartle-Hawking state on rotating black holes. We exemplify the technique with a massive scalar field on the warped AdS3 black hole solution to topologically massive gravity, a deformation of (2+1)-dimensional Einstein gravity. We use a "quasi-Euclidean" technique, which generalizes the Euclidean techniques used for static spacetimes, and we subtract the divergences by matching to a sum over mode solutions on Minkowski spacetime. This allows us, for the first time, to have a general method to compute the renormalized vacuum polarization (and, more importantly, the renormalized stress-energy tensor), for a given quantum state, on a rotating black hole, such as the physically relevant case of the Kerr black hole in four dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01336

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalizationblack holequantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Black holes (83C57) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81Txx)

Cites Work

• Quantum fields in curved space.

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