Compton Amplitude for Rotating Black Hole from QFT.

Phys Rev Lett

Service de Physique de l'Univers, Champs et Gravitation, Université de Mons, 20 place du Parc, 7000 Mons, Belgium.

Published: August 2024

AI Article Synopsis

  • The article presents a new gravitational Compton amplitude for rotating Kerr black holes applicable to any quantum spin, from zero to infinity.
  • It utilizes concepts from higher-spin quantum field theory, such as gauge invariance, to derive classical amplitudes with respect to the spin vector.
  • The study emphasizes using a chiral-field approach for clarity in degrees of freedom and simplifies interactions, allowing for comparisons with existing general-relativity results up to eighth order in spin.

Article 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 S^{μ}. 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.

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