Black Holes with Quantum Massive Spin-2 Hair
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We show that black holes can posses a long range quantum mechanical hair associated with a massive spin-2 field, which can be detected by a stringy generalization of the Aharovon-Bohm effect, in which a string loop lassoes the black hole. The long distance effect persist for arbitrarily high mass of the spin-2 field. An analogous effect is exhibited by a massive antisymmetric two-form field. We make a close parallel between the two and the ordinary Aharonov-Bohm phenomenon, and also show that in the latter case the effect can be experienced even by the electrically-neutral particles, provided some boundary terms are added to the action.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0605295,
title = {Black Holes with Quantum Massive Spin-2 Hair},
author = {Gia Dvali},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0605295},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
15 pages, Latex