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On emergent conformal symmetry near the photon ring

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-05-31 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this note we revisit the emergent conformal symmetry in the near-ring region of warped spacetime. In particular, we propose a novel construction of the emergent near-ring sl(2,R)QNMsl(2,R)_{\text{QNM}} symmetry. We show that each eikonal QNM family falls into one highest-weight representation of this algebra, and sl(2,R)QNMsl(2,R)_{\text{QNM}} can be related to the near-ring isometry group sl(2,R)ISOsl(2,R)_{\text{ISO}} in a simple way. Furthermore we find that the coherent state space of sl(2,R)QNMsl(2,R)_{\text{QNM}} can be identified with the phase space of the photon ring.

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@article{arxiv.2212.02958,
  title  = {On emergent conformal symmetry near the photon ring},
  author = {Bin Chen and Yehui Hou and Zezhou Hu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.02958},
  year   = {2023}
}

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15 pages, minor revisions; Presentation improved, published version