Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2001-04-06
Nucl.Phys. B610 (2001) 117-143
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
30 pages, 2 figures, typos corrected, one reference added
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00311-X
We study the absorption of a minimally coupled scalar in the gravitational background created by a stack of near-extremal black three-branes, and more generally by M2, M5 and Dp branes. The absorption probability has the form P(l) = P_0(l) f_l(\lambda), where P_0(l) is the partial wave's absorption probability in the extremal case, and the thermal factor f_l(\lambda) depends on the ratio of the frequency of the incoming wave and the Hawking temperature, \lambda = \omega/\pi T. Using Langer-Olver's method, we obtain a low-temperature (\lambda \gg 1) asymptotic expansion for P(l) with coefficients determined recursively. This expansion, which turns out to be a fairly good approximation even for \lambda \sim 1, accounts for all power-like finite-temperature corrections to P_0(l), and we calculate a few terms explicitly. We also show that at low temperature the absorption probability contains exponentially suppressed terms, and attempt to develop an approximation scheme to calculate those. The high-temperature expansion is also considered. For the s-wave, the low-temperature gravity result is consistent with the free finite-temperature field theory calculation, while for high temperature and higher partial waves we find a disagreement. As a check of the approximation methods used, we apply them to the D1-D5-brane system, and compare results to the known exact solution.
Policastro Giuseppe
Starinets Andrei
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