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Scattering Hawking Radiation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-07-24 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We analyze the physical consequences of scattering Hawking radiation emitted in the vicinity of the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole. The Hawking radiation from the horizon becomes soft at a large distance away from the horizon due to the gravitational redshift, and the above process is exactly the soft theorem in curved spacetime. For an observer located at infinity, such a scattering process introduces a large gauge transformation, which can be regarded as a memory effect. The large gauge transformation is expected to encode more information about the radiation and might shed light on the black hole information paradox.

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@article{arxiv.2507.17313,
  title  = {Scattering Hawking Radiation},
  author = {Peng Cheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.17313},
  year   = {2025}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures

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