Coupling Electromagnetism to Torsion: Black Holes and Spin-Charge Interactions

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Auteurs principaux: Bahamonde, Sebastian, Maggiolo, Jorge, Pfeifer, Christian
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author Bahamonde, Sebastian
Maggiolo, Jorge
Pfeifer, Christian
author_facet Bahamonde, Sebastian
Maggiolo, Jorge
Pfeifer, Christian
contents The coupling between matter fields and gravity, encoded in the geometry of spacetime, can be realized in various ways. Most commonly, a minimal coupling principle is employed, meaning that all matter fields, except spinors, couple only to the spacetime metric, while spinors additionally couple to the spacetime connection. Non-minimal couplings between matter fields and spacetime curvature can arise, for example, from quantum field theory on curved spacetime through renormalization corrections, in gauge theories of gravity, and in effective field theories. In this article, we consider a non-minimal coupling $F^{μν}\tilde{R}_{μν}$ between the field strength tensor of the electromagnetic field $F_{μν}$ and the antisymmetric part of the Ricci tensor $\tilde{R}_{[μν]}$ in Riemann--Cartan geometry, which is based on a general metric-compatible connection with torsion. We find an exact four-dimensional vacuum solution that generalizes the Reissner--Nordstr{ö}m black hole from Einstein--Maxwell and reveals new interactions between the intrinsic torsion-spin charge and the electric charge. Qualitatively, this solution exhibits two distinct features: the effective charge is not constrained to be positive, and the sign of the electric charge influences its gravitational effects. We also derive slowly rotating solutions in three dimensions, representing a generalized slowly rotating BTZ black hole solution with couplings among the magnetic and electric charges, the angular momentum, and the intrinsic torsion-spin charge.
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spellingShingle Coupling Electromagnetism to Torsion: Black Holes and Spin-Charge Interactions
Bahamonde, Sebastian
Maggiolo, Jorge
Pfeifer, Christian
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
The coupling between matter fields and gravity, encoded in the geometry of spacetime, can be realized in various ways. Most commonly, a minimal coupling principle is employed, meaning that all matter fields, except spinors, couple only to the spacetime metric, while spinors additionally couple to the spacetime connection. Non-minimal couplings between matter fields and spacetime curvature can arise, for example, from quantum field theory on curved spacetime through renormalization corrections, in gauge theories of gravity, and in effective field theories. In this article, we consider a non-minimal coupling $F^{μν}\tilde{R}_{μν}$ between the field strength tensor of the electromagnetic field $F_{μν}$ and the antisymmetric part of the Ricci tensor $\tilde{R}_{[μν]}$ in Riemann--Cartan geometry, which is based on a general metric-compatible connection with torsion. We find an exact four-dimensional vacuum solution that generalizes the Reissner--Nordstr{ö}m black hole from Einstein--Maxwell and reveals new interactions between the intrinsic torsion-spin charge and the electric charge. Qualitatively, this solution exhibits two distinct features: the effective charge is not constrained to be positive, and the sign of the electric charge influences its gravitational effects. We also derive slowly rotating solutions in three dimensions, representing a generalized slowly rotating BTZ black hole solution with couplings among the magnetic and electric charges, the angular momentum, and the intrinsic torsion-spin charge.
title Coupling Electromagnetism to Torsion: Black Holes and Spin-Charge Interactions
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02362