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Renormalized stress tensor for massive fields in Kerr-Newman spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-09-12 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In a four-dimensional spacetime, the DeWitt-Schwinger expansion of the effective action associated with a massive quantum field reduces, after renormalization and in the large mass limit, to a single term constructed from the purely geometrical Gilkey-DeWitt coefficient a3a_3 and its metric variation provides a good analytical approximation for the renormalized stress-energy tensor of the quantum field. Here, from the general expression of this tensor, we obtain analytically the renormalized stress-energy tensors of the massive scalar field, the massive Dirac field and the Proca field in Kerr-Newman spacetime. It should be noted that, even if, at first sight, the expressions obtained are complicated, their structure is in fact rather simple, involving naturally spacetime coordinates as well as the mass MM, the charge QQ and the rotation parameter aa of the Kerr-Newman black hole and permitting us to recover rapidly the results already existing in the literature for the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstr\"om and Kerr black holes (and to correct them in the latter case). In the absence of exact results in Kerr-Newman spacetime, our approximate renormalized stress-energy tensors could be very helpful, in particular to study the backreaction of massive quantum fields on this spacetime or on its quasinormal modes.

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@article{arxiv.1404.7422,
  title  = {Renormalized stress tensor for massive fields in Kerr-Newman spacetime},
  author = {Andrei Belokogne and Antoine Folacci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.7422},
  year   = {2014}
}

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v2: Presentation greatly improved, discussions and references added.v3: Matches the published version

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