Self Dual Black Holes as the Hydrogen Atom

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Hauptverfasser: Guevara, Alfredo, Kol, Uri
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author Guevara, Alfredo
Kol, Uri
author_facet Guevara, Alfredo
Kol, Uri
contents Rotating black holes exhibit a remarkable set of hidden symmetries near their horizon. These hidden symmetries have been shown to determine phenomena such as absorption scattering, superradiance and more recently tidal deformations, also known as Love numbers. They have also led to a proposal for a dual thermal CFT with left and right movers recovering the entropy of the black hole. In this work we provide a constructive explanation of these hidden symmetries via analytic continuation to Klein signature. We first show that the near-horizon region of extremal black holes is a Kleinian static solution with mass $M$ and NUT charge $N$. We then analyze the self-dual solution, namely a Kerr black hole with a NUT charge $N=\pm M$. Remarkably, the self-dual solution is self-similar to its near-horizon region and hence approximate symmetries become exact: in particular, the original two isometries of Kerr are promoted to seven exact symmetries embedded in a conformal algebra. We analyze its full conformal group in Kleinian twistor space, where a breaking $SO(4,2) \to SL(2,\mathbb{R})\times SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ occurs due to the insertion of a preferred time direction for the black hole. Finally, we show that the spectrum of the self-dual black hole is integrable and that the eigenvalue problem can be mapped exactly to the Hydrogen atom where the wavefunction is solved in terms of elementary polynomials. Perturbing to astrophysical black holes with $N=0$, we obtain a hyperfine splitting structure.
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spellingShingle Self Dual Black Holes as the Hydrogen Atom
Guevara, Alfredo
Kol, Uri
High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Mathematical Physics
Rotating black holes exhibit a remarkable set of hidden symmetries near their horizon. These hidden symmetries have been shown to determine phenomena such as absorption scattering, superradiance and more recently tidal deformations, also known as Love numbers. They have also led to a proposal for a dual thermal CFT with left and right movers recovering the entropy of the black hole. In this work we provide a constructive explanation of these hidden symmetries via analytic continuation to Klein signature. We first show that the near-horizon region of extremal black holes is a Kleinian static solution with mass $M$ and NUT charge $N$. We then analyze the self-dual solution, namely a Kerr black hole with a NUT charge $N=\pm M$. Remarkably, the self-dual solution is self-similar to its near-horizon region and hence approximate symmetries become exact: in particular, the original two isometries of Kerr are promoted to seven exact symmetries embedded in a conformal algebra. We analyze its full conformal group in Kleinian twistor space, where a breaking $SO(4,2) \to SL(2,\mathbb{R})\times SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ occurs due to the insertion of a preferred time direction for the black hole. Finally, we show that the spectrum of the self-dual black hole is integrable and that the eigenvalue problem can be mapped exactly to the Hydrogen atom where the wavefunction is solved in terms of elementary polynomials. Perturbing to astrophysical black holes with $N=0$, we obtain a hyperfine splitting structure.
title Self Dual Black Holes as the Hydrogen Atom
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07933