Published April 10, 2017 | Version v1
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Soft black hole absorption rates as conservation laws

Creators

  • 1. Michigan State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy,East Lansing, MI, 48824 (United States)
  • 2. Brown University, Department of Physics,182 Hope St, Providence, RI, 02912 (United States)
  • 3. Harvard University, Center for Mathematical Science and Applications,1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, 02138 (United States)

Description

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.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2017)053; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/19679

Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://repo.scoap3.org/record/19679;
DOI
10.1007/JHEP04(2017)053;
arXiv
arXiv:1609.04397v1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2017
Journal Issue
04
Journal Page Range
p. 53
ISSN
1029-8479

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
49011842
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
ABSORPTION; BLACK HOLES; CONSERVATION LAWS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; GAUGE INVARIANCE; PHOTONS; SCALAR MESONS; SYMMETRY; WARD IDENTITY
Descriptors DEC
BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; HADRONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MESONS; RADIATIONS; SORPTION

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Copyright
Copyright (c) OPEN ACCESS, © The Authors
Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP04(2017)053; ARXIV:1609.04397; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:19679
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)