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Double copy of spontaneously broken Abelian gauge theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-06-08 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Similarity in the structure of scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theories and General Relativity led to the idea that graviton could be described as the double copy of a vector gauge field. In this letter we discuss a realization of this idea emerging directly from solutions of equations of General Relativity. A general form of the energy momentum tensor for the electric field is derived that leads to the metric tensor in terms of the double copy of a corresponding gauge potential. We than use this general property to find the double copy of spontaneously broken scalar electrodynamics. The result is a screened Reissner-Nordstr\"om-like metric. When the horizon radius and the Compton wavelength of the massive photon become comparable the black hole becomes a quantum object. An exact solution of the horizon wave equation is found and the corresponding energy spectrum is described. It turns out that highly excited states show a characteristic string-like behavior.

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@article{arxiv.2205.11980,
  title  = {Double copy of spontaneously broken Abelian gauge theory},
  author = {Euro Spallucci and Anais Smailagic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.11980},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

15 pages; no figures; paper in print in Phys.Lett.B