Stealth Scalar Field Overflying a 2+1 Black Hole
Abstract
A nontrivial scalar field configuration of vanishing energy-momentum is reported. These matter configurations have no influence on the metric and therefore they are not be "detected" gravitationally. This phenomenon occurs for a time-dependent nonminimally coupled and self-interacting scalar field on the 2+1 (BTZ) black hole geometry. We conclude that such stealth configurations exist for the static 2+1 black hole for any value of the nonminimal coupling parameter ζ≠0 with a fixed self-interaction potential Uζ(). For the range 0<ζ≤1/2 potentials are bounded from below and for the range 0<ζ<1/4 the stealth field falls into the black hole and is swallowed by it at an exponential rate, without any consequence for the black hole.
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