Scattering and absorption of massless scalar waves by a ModMax black hole

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Main Authors: Baptista, Arturo Quispe, Peñafiel, M. L.
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author Baptista, Arturo Quispe
Peñafiel, M. L.
author_facet Baptista, Arturo Quispe
Peñafiel, M. L.
contents ModMax electrodynamics is a remarkable example of nonlinear electrodynamics that preserves both conformal and duality invariance. When coupled to General Relativity, the resulting black hole solutions introduce a tunable nonlinearity parameter that effectively screens the electromagnetic charge. We study the scattering and absorption of massless scalar waves by a ModMax black hole by applying the partial waves method. We also compute some well-known analytical approximations for the scattering and absorption cross sections and contrast them with the full numerical solution. Our results adequately reproduce those of Maxwell electrodynamics in the appropriate limit and illustrate the effect of the charge screening in ModMax electrodynamics.
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spellingShingle Scattering and absorption of massless scalar waves by a ModMax black hole
Baptista, Arturo Quispe
Peñafiel, M. L.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
ModMax electrodynamics is a remarkable example of nonlinear electrodynamics that preserves both conformal and duality invariance. When coupled to General Relativity, the resulting black hole solutions introduce a tunable nonlinearity parameter that effectively screens the electromagnetic charge. We study the scattering and absorption of massless scalar waves by a ModMax black hole by applying the partial waves method. We also compute some well-known analytical approximations for the scattering and absorption cross sections and contrast them with the full numerical solution. Our results adequately reproduce those of Maxwell electrodynamics in the appropriate limit and illustrate the effect of the charge screening in ModMax electrodynamics.
title Scattering and absorption of massless scalar waves by a ModMax black hole
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17489