Influence through mixing: hotspots as benchmarks for basic black-hole behaviour

G. Kaplanek (Department of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, ON, Canada) ; C.P. Burgess (Department of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, ON, Canada) ; R. Holman (Minerva Schools at KGI, 1145 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, USA)

Effective theories are being developed for fields outside black holes, often with an unusual open-system feel due to the influence of large number of degrees of freedom that lie out of reach beyond the horizon. What is often difficult when interpreting such theories is the absence of comparisons to simpler systems that share these features. We propose here such a simple model, involving a single external scalar field that mixes in a limited region of space with a ‘hotspot’ containing a large number of hot internal degrees of freedom. Since the model is at heart gaussian it can be solved explicitly, and we do so for the mode functions and correlation functions for the external field once the hotspot fields are traced out. We compare with calculations that work perturbatively in the mixing parameter, and by doing so can precisely identify its domain of validity. We also show how renormalization-group EFT methods can allow some perturbative contributions to be resummed beyond leading order, verifying the result using the exact expression.

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Published on:
02 September 2021
Publisher:
Springer
Published in:
Journal of High Energy Physics , Volume 2021 (2021)
Issue 9
Pages 1-61
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2021)006
arXiv:
2106.09854
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CC-BY-4.0

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