Compton Amplitude for Rotating Black Hole from QFT
Abstract
We construct a candidate tree-level gravitational Compton amplitude for a rotating Kerr black hole, for any quantum spin s=0,1/2,1,...,, from which we extract the corresponding classical amplitude to all orders in the spin vector . We use multiple insights from massive higher-spin quantum field theory, such as massive gauge invariance and improved behavior in the massless limit. A chiral-field approach is particularly helpful in ensuring correct degrees of freedom, and for writing down compact off-shell interactions for general spin. The simplicity of the interactions is echoed in the structure of the spin-s Compton amplitude, for which we use homogeneous symmetric polynomials of the spin variables. Where possible, we compare to the general-relativity results in the literature, available up to eighth order in spin.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2312.14913,
title = {Compton Amplitude for Rotating Black Hole from QFT},
author = {Lucile Cangemi and Marco Chiodaroli and Henrik Johansson and Alexander Ochirov and Paolo Pichini and Evgeny Skvortsov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.14913},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
7 pages + refs; v3 minor improvements, journal version