21–26 Jun 2026
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building
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Self-regularized entropy: What does black hole entropy predict for tests of Kerr no-hair theorem?

25 Jun 2026, 14:45
15m
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

100 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N3
Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e)) Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT) (DTP) R1-5 | (DPT)

Speaker

Shokoufe Faraji

Description

We compute the canonical (brick-wall) entropy of Hawking radiation in a quantum black hole whose exterior geometry, in the strong field region, is approximated, to first order in a small quadrupole parameter, by the static q-metric, which is an exact vacuum solution of the Einstein equations. Counting near horizon quasinormal modes shows that a modest quadrupolar deformation self-regularizes the ultraviolet divergence: the entropy of Hawking radiation is finite for any non-vanishing quadrupole, without an ad hoc cutoff. Matching this canonical entropy to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy leads to no-hair violating multipoles, at percent-to-tens-of-percent level, and provides concrete observational targets for the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope (ngEHT) and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).

Keyword-1 entropy
Keyword-2 quadrupole
Keyword-3 no-hair theorem

Authors

Shokoufe Faraji Niayesh Afshordi

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