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SCIPOST PHYSICS
Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
SCIPOST FOUNDATION
DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.7.4.054
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- Delta ITP consortium, a program of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) - Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW)
- Royal Society
- National Science Foundation [NSF PHY-1748958]
- ERC
- STFC [ST/P000258/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We consider quantum field theory near the horizon of an extreme Kerr black hole. In this limit, the dynamics is well approximated by a tower of electrically charged fields propagating in an SL(2, R) invariant AdS(2) geometry endowed with a constant, symmetry preserving background electric field. At large charge the fields oscillate near the AdS(2) boundary and no longer admit a standard Dirichlet treatment. From the Kerr black hole perspective, this phenomenon is related to the presence of an ergosphere. We discuss a definition for the quantum field theory whereby we 'UV' complete AdS(2) by appending an asymptotically two dimensional Minkowski region. This allows the construction of a novel observable for the flux-carrying modes that resembles the standard flat space S-matrix. We relate various features displayed by the highly charged particles to the principal series representations of SL(2, R). These representations are unitary and also appear for massive quantum fields in dS(2). Both fermionic and bosonic fields are studied. We find that the free charged massless fermion is exactly solvable for general background, providing an interesting arena for the problem at hand.
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