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We investigate the dynamics of scalar fields in the near-horizon exterior region of a Schwarzschild black hole. We show that low-energy modes are typically long-living and might be considered as being confined near the black hole horizon. Such dynamics are effectively governed by a Schrödinger operator with infinitely many self-adjoint extensions parameterized by U(1), a situation closely resembling the case of an ordinary free particle moving on a semiaxis. Even though these different self-adjoint extensions lead to equivalent scattering and thermal processes, a comparison with a simplified model suggests a physical prescription to chose the pertinent self-adjoint extensions. However, since all extensions are in principle physically equivalent, they might be considered in equal footing for statistical analyses of near-horizon modes around black holes. Analogous results hold for any non-extremal, spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat black hole.
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ARQ and AS thank the University of Zaragoza, where part of this work was carried on, for the warm hospitality. The authors acknowledge the financial support of CNPq and CAPES (ARQ and AS) and FAPESP (AS, Grant 2013/09357-9).
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Balachandran, A.P., de Queiroz, A.R., Saa, A. (2019). Near-Horizon Modes and Self-adjoint Extensions of the Schrödinger Operator. In: Marmo, G., Martín de Diego, D., Muñoz Lecanda, M. (eds) Classical and Quantum Physics. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 229. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24748-5_3
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