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An Exterior EFT for Hawking Radiation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-03-07 v2

Abstract

We present a general conjecture for evaluating the multiple-discontinuity integrals that appear in real-time holography using gravitational Schwinger-Keldysh (grSK) geometry. Our conjecture is valid for arbitrary non-derivative interactions with any number of bulk tree-level exchanges. It is also consistent with a unitary exterior EFT at finite temperature with correct causal structure. We present a set of Feynman rules underlying this exterior EFT and illustrate it with the computation of four and five-point functions.

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@article{arxiv.2403.10654,
  title  = {An Exterior EFT for Hawking Radiation},
  author = {R. Loganayagam and Godwin Martin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.10654},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

20 pages + 12 pages of appendices, v2: Extra appendix added, minor corrections

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