Carrollian physics at the black hole horizon

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DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AB2FD5zbMATH Open1477.83050arXiv1903.09654OpenAlexW2924313363WikidataQ125792047 ScholiaQ125792047MaRDI QIDQ5159909FDOQ5159909


Authors: Laura Donnay, Charles Marteau Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 28 October 2021

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the geometry of a black hole horizon can be described as a Carrollian geometry emerging from an ultra-relativistic limit where the near-horizon radial coordinate plays the role of a virtual velocity of light tending to zero. We prove that the laws governing the dynamics of a black hole horizon, the null Raychaudhuri and Damour equations, are Carrollian conservation laws obtained by taking the ultra-relativistic limit of the conservation of an energy-momentum tensor; we also discuss their physical interpretation. We show that the vector fields preserving the Carrollian geometry of the horizon, dubbed Carrollian Killing vectors, include BMS-like supertranslations and superrotations and that they have non-trivial associated conserved charges on the horizon. In particular, we build a generalization of the angular momentum to the case of non-stationary black holes. Finally, we discuss the relation of these conserved quantities to the infinite tower of charges of the covariant phase space formalism.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09654




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