Conformal invariance and apparent universality of semiclassical gravity

Details Conformal invariance and apparent universality of semiclassical gravity Conformal invariance and apparent universality of semiclassical gravity

2008-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/0807.4885v1

Phys.Rev.D78:084014,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

11 pages

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.78.084014

In a recent work, it has been pointed out that certain observables of the massless scalar field theory in a static spherically symmetric background exhibit a universal behavior at large distances. More precisely, it was shown that, unlike what happens in the case the coupling to the curvature \xi is generic, for the special cases \xi=0 and \xi = 1/6 the large distance behavior of the expectation value turns out to be independent of the internal structure of the gravitational source. Here, we address a higher dimensional generalization of this result: We first compute the difference between a black hole and a static spherically symmetric star for the observables <\phi^2> and in the far field limit. Thus, we show that the conformally invariant massless scalar field theory in a static spherically symmetric background exhibits such universality phenomenon in D\geq 4 dimensions. Also, using the one-loop effective action, we compute for a weakly gravitating object. These results lead to the explicit expression of the expectation value for a Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole in the far field limit. As an application, we obtain quantum corrections to the gravitational potential in D dimensions, which for D=4 are shown to agree with the one-loop correction to the graviton propagator previously found in the literature.

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