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Hauptverfasser: Brito, João P. B., Higuchi, Atsushi, Crispino, Luís C. B.
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author Brito, João P. B.
Higuchi, Atsushi
Crispino, Luís C. B.
author_facet Brito, João P. B.
Higuchi, Atsushi
Crispino, Luís C. B.
contents We study the interaction of a stress-energy tensor describing a static point mass supported by a string outside a Schwarzschild black hole with the gravitons of the Hawking radiation. We derive a closed-form analytic expression for the total response rate of this stress-energy tensor to the thermal gravitons in the Unruh state, which models the quantum state in the spacetime of a spherically symmetric black hole formed by gravitational collapse. This response rate is finite in contrast with the infrared divergent response rate for a static point mass supported by a string in Rindler spacetime, i.e., a point mass accelerated uniformly by a string in Minkowski spacetime. By comparing the response rate near the black hole horizon with that in Rindler spacetime, we show that the size of the black hole acts as a natural infrared cutoff. We also find that the response rate of this stress-energy tensor to the thermal gravitons incoming from past null infinity in the Hartle-Hawking state vanishes. As a result, the total response rate of a static point mass (supported by a string) in the Unruh and Hartle-Hawking states for gravitons are identical. This is also the case for a static charge interacting with the electromagnetic field but not for a static source for a massless scalar field.
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spellingShingle Interaction of the gravitational Hawking radiation and a static point mass
Brito, João P. B.
Higuchi, Atsushi
Crispino, Luís C. B.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We study the interaction of a stress-energy tensor describing a static point mass supported by a string outside a Schwarzschild black hole with the gravitons of the Hawking radiation. We derive a closed-form analytic expression for the total response rate of this stress-energy tensor to the thermal gravitons in the Unruh state, which models the quantum state in the spacetime of a spherically symmetric black hole formed by gravitational collapse. This response rate is finite in contrast with the infrared divergent response rate for a static point mass supported by a string in Rindler spacetime, i.e., a point mass accelerated uniformly by a string in Minkowski spacetime. By comparing the response rate near the black hole horizon with that in Rindler spacetime, we show that the size of the black hole acts as a natural infrared cutoff. We also find that the response rate of this stress-energy tensor to the thermal gravitons incoming from past null infinity in the Hartle-Hawking state vanishes. As a result, the total response rate of a static point mass (supported by a string) in the Unruh and Hartle-Hawking states for gravitons are identical. This is also the case for a static charge interacting with the electromagnetic field but not for a static source for a massless scalar field.
title Interaction of the gravitational Hawking radiation and a static point mass
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09948