Soft black hole absorption rates as conservation laws

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2017)053zbMATH Open1378.83029arXiv1609.04397OpenAlexW3102086038WikidataQ60136223 ScholiaQ60136223MaRDI QIDQ680661FDOQ680661

Authors: Steven G. Avery, Burkhard U. W. Schwab 

Publication date: 23 January 2018

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

Abstract: The absorption rate of low-energy, or soft, electromagnetic radiation by spherically symmetric black holes in arbitrary dimensions is shown to be fixed by conservation of energy and large gauge transformations. We interpret this result as the explicit realization of the Hawking-Perry-Strominger Ward identity for large gauge transformations in the background of a non-evaporating black hole. Along the way we rederive and extend previous analytic results regarding the absorption rate for the minimal scalar and the photon.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04397

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesclassical theories of gravitygauge symmetryglobal symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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