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Kerr-Newman from Minimal Coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-01-29 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We show that at 1PN all four-dimensional black hole solutions in asymptotically flat spacetimes can be derived from leading singularities involving minimally coupled three-particle amplitudes. Furthermore, we show that the rotating solutions can be derived from their non-rotating counterparts by a spin-factor deformation of the relevant minimally coupled amplitudes. To show this, we compute the tree-level and one-loop leading singularities for a heavy charged source with generic spin s. We compute the metrics both with and without a spin factor and show that we get both the Kerr-Newman and Reissner-Nordstr\"om solutions respectively. We then go on to compute the impulse imparted to the probe particle in the infinite spin limit and show that the spin factor induces a complex deformation of the impact parameter, as was recently observed for Kerr black holes in a recent paper by Arkani-Hamed et al. We interpret these observations as being the on-shell avatar of the Janis-Newman algorithm for charged black holes.

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@article{arxiv.1909.05217,
  title  = {Kerr-Newman from Minimal Coupling},
  author = {Nathan Moynihan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.05217},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Fixed typos, modifications to infinite spin limit section, added appendix on elliptical integrals

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