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Kerr-Schild Double Copy of the Coulomb Solution in Three Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-08-25 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

While the Kerr-Schild double copy of the Coulomb solution in dimensions higher than three is the Schwarzschild black hole, it is known that it should be a non-vacuum solution in three dimensions. We show that the static black hole solution of Einstein-Maxwell theory (with one ghost sign in the action) is the double copy with the correct Newtonian limit, which provides an improvement over the previous construction with a free scalar field that does not vanish at infinity. By considering a negative cosmological constant, we also study the charged Ba\~nados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole and find that the single copy gauge field is the Coulomb solution modified by a term which describes an electric field linearly increasing with the radial coordinate, which is the usual behaviour of the Schwarzschild-AdS black hole in higher dimensions when written around a flat background metric.

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@article{arxiv.2105.11550,
  title  = {Kerr-Schild Double Copy of the Coulomb Solution in Three Dimensions},
  author = {Gokhan Alkac and Mehmet Kemal Gumus and Mehmet Ali Olpak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.11550},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

15 pages + references, typos in equations (3.1) and (3.3) corrected, minor changes, version to appear in PRD (with three additional references)