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Black Holes, Newtonian Scattering and Conformal Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We discuss non-relativistic scattering by a Newtonian potential. We show that the gray-body factors associated with scattering by a black hole exhibit the same functional dependence as scattering amplitudes in the Newtonian limit, which should be the weak-field limit of any quantum theory of gravity. This behavior arises independently of the presence of supersymmetry. The connection to two-dimensional conformal field theory is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9807174,
  title  = {Black Holes, Newtonian Scattering and Conformal Field Theory},
  author = {George Siopsis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9807174},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, sprocl, presented at the Arnowitt Fest, Texas A&M University, April 1998. To appear in the Festschrift Volume "Relativity, Particle Physics, and Cosmology," published by World Scientific