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Compton Amplitude for Rotating Black Hole from QFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-08-21 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct a candidate tree-level gravitational Compton amplitude for a rotating Kerr black hole, for any quantum spin s=0,1/2,1,...,\infty, from which we extract the corresponding classical amplitude to all orders in the spin vector SμS^\mu. We use multiple insights from massive higher-spin quantum field theory, such as massive gauge invariance and improved behavior in the massless limit. A chiral-field approach is particularly helpful in ensuring correct degrees of freedom, and for writing down compact off-shell interactions for general spin. The simplicity of the interactions is echoed in the structure of the spin-s Compton amplitude, for which we use homogeneous symmetric polynomials of the spin variables. Where possible, we compare to the general-relativity results in the literature, available up to eighth order in spin.

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@article{arxiv.2312.14913,
  title  = {Compton Amplitude for Rotating Black Hole from QFT},
  author = {Lucile Cangemi and Marco Chiodaroli and Henrik Johansson and Alexander Ochirov and Paolo Pichini and Evgeny Skvortsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.14913},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

7 pages + refs; v3 minor improvements, journal version

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