The generating functional for the electromagnetic interaction in the strong gravitational field

Abstract

This article is devoted problems of electromagnetic interaction in curved spacetime. Such problems exist, in particular, when we investigate electromagnetic quantum processes near black holes. The generalization of reduction formalism permits to find formulas for scattering matrices. For the free Dirac and electromagnetic fields corresponding generating functionals are calculated. Next we have found the generating functional for the interaction of these fields. This result holds the central position in our investigation. By means of generating functionals and reduction formulas we have obtained the scattering amplitudes for elementary electrodynamic processes: Compton scattering and the annihilation of electron-positron pair (for the tree-level approximation). On the base of these results we have formulated the generalized Feynman rules for the electromagnetic interaction in curved spacetime. Another electrodynamic processes can be studied by means of these Feynman rules and crossing-symmetry. The generating functional can be used to study problems of quantum statistics in curved spacetime.