English

Scattering Angles in Kerr Metrics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-01-04 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Scattering angles for probes in Kerr metrics are derived for scattering in the equatorial plane of the black hole. We use a method that naturally resums all orders in the spin of the Kerr black hole, thus facilitating comparisons with scattering-angle computations based on the Post-Minkowskian expansion from scattering amplitudes or worldline calculations. We extend these results to spinning black-hole probes up to and including second order in the probe spin and any order in the Post- Minkowskian expansion, for probe spins aligned with the Kerr spin. When truncating to third Post-Minkowskian order, our results agree with those obtained by amplitude and worldline methods.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2208.11028,
  title  = {Scattering Angles in Kerr Metrics},
  author = {Poul H. Damgaard and Jitze Hoogeveen and Andres Luna and Justin Vines},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.11028},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

18 pages, 3 tables

R2 v1 2026-06-25T01:54:26.868Z