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One loop determinant in the extremal black hole from quasinormal modes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-01 v4

Abstract

In this paper, we evaluate the one-loop partition function of a scalar field in the near-horizon geometry of the extremal Reissner Nordstr\"{o}m black hole from an infinite product over quasinormal modes using the Denef-Hartnoll-Sachdev (DHS) formula. We show that the logarithmic divergent term of the one-loop partition function computed using the DHS formula agrees with the heat kernel method. Using the same formula, we also evaluate the one-loop partition function of a scalar field in the near-extremal Kerr-Newman black hole and observe that it reduces to the same in the near-horizon AdS2×S2AdS_2\times S^2 geometry of the extremal Reissner Nordstr\"{o}m black hole when the angular velocity at the horizon is tuned to 2πTBH2\pi T_{BH} value. We observe that, for higher spin fields, the mode functions are not smooth at the horizon for certain quasinormal frequencies; therefore, we remove them to obtain the one-loop determinant.

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@article{arxiv.2408.06165,
  title  = {One loop determinant in the extremal black hole from quasinormal modes},
  author = {Jyotirmoy Mukherjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.06165},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

A new appendix added, references added

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