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Near horizon linearized gravity and soft theorem

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-03-21 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this paper, we study the linearized gravity theory in the near horizon region of the Schwarzschild black hole in four dimensional spacetime. Under the Newman-Unti gauge, we derive the most general near horizon symmetry and solution space without any near horizon fall-off condition. There are four towers of surface charges that are generic functions on the horizon associated to the near horizon symmetry. With suitable near horizon fall-off conditions, we reveal a soft graviton theorem from the Ward identity of the near horizon supertranslation in both coordinates space and momentum space.

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@article{arxiv.2311.03773,
  title  = {Near horizon linearized gravity and soft theorem},
  author = {Pujian Mao and Kai-Yu Zhang and Bochen Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.03773},
  year   = {2024}
}

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v2: two remarks added, new refs added

R2 v1 2026-06-28T13:13:42.364Z