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arxiv: 2606.13599 · v1 · pith:U4RQIMVVnew · submitted 2026-06-11 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc

Black Hole Thermodynamics Meets On-Shell Amplitudes: Local Detailed Balance and Thermal Spectrum from Spin Universality and Unitarity

Dogan Akpinar , Katsuki Aoki , Andrea Cristofoli , Hyun Jeong , Kaho Yoshimura This is my paper

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keywords on-shell amplitudesblack hole thermodynamicsspin universalitylocal detailed balanceHawking radiationunitaritythermal spectrummacroscopic objects
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Black hole thermal spectra follow from on-shell amplitudes when spin universality enforces equal absorption and emission rates under unitarity.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper builds an on-shell amplitude framework for thermal radiation and dissipation in macroscopic objects, treating their internal state degeneracy through entropy while representing equilibrium configurations as on-shell particles. It identifies that spinning states remain relevant even for macroscopically non-rotating objects, so that consistency with macroscopic symmetries requires a single universal coupling for all such states. This universality makes absorption and emission probabilities depend on the same coupling, producing local detailed balance directly from the amplitudes. When applied to black holes the construction recovers the thermal emission spectrum and links the Hawking temperature to the absorption value that saturates the unitary bound on time evolution.

Core claim

In the on-shell framework equilibrium asymptotic states are represented as particles while non-equilibrium processes appear as transition amplitudes; consistency with macroscopic symmetries then implies spin universality, so that a single universal coupling governs all spinning states and controls both absorption and emission probabilities, yielding local detailed balance from on-shell data alone. Applied to black holes this reproduces the thermal emission spectrum and relates the Hawking temperature to the condition of maximal absorption consistent with unitary time evolution.

What carries the argument

Spin universality: the single universal coupling that governs all spinning internal states of a macroscopic object once macroscopic symmetries are imposed.

If this is right

  • Local detailed balance between absorption and emission emerges directly from the on-shell transition amplitudes without extra thermodynamic input.
  • The same coupling constant fixes both absorption and emission probabilities.
  • The thermal spectrum of black-hole emission is recovered from the amplitude framework.
  • The Hawking temperature is fixed by the value of absorption that saturates the unitary limit on time evolution.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same on-shell construction could be applied to other macroscopic objects whose internal degeneracy is described by entropy, such as neutron stars or condensed-matter systems with large state spaces.
  • If spin universality holds, temperature-like parameters in other dissipative systems might be extractable from the unitary bound on absorption amplitudes.
  • The link between maximal absorption and temperature supplies a direct route from scattering data to thermodynamic quantities in any system obeying the same symmetry constraints.

Load-bearing premise

Consistency with macroscopic symmetries forces every spinning state of a macroscopically non-rotating object to obey exactly the same coupling strength.

What would settle it

An explicit on-shell amplitude calculation for distinct spin states of a non-rotating black hole in which the extracted coupling constants differ between spins.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.13599 by Andrea Cristofoli, Dogan Akpinar, Hyun Jeong, Kaho Yoshimura, Katsuki Aoki.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. Spin transition processes for absorption (left to right) and emission (right to left). [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_1.png] view at source ↗
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We develop an on-shell framework for thermal dissipation and radiation by macroscopic objects, whose large degeneracy of internal states is encoded in their entropy. In this framework, equilibrium asymptotic states are represented as on-shell particles, while non-equilibrium processes are described by on-shell transition amplitudes between them. A central observation is that spinning states remain essential even for macroscopically non-rotating objects. Consistency with macroscopic symmetries then implies spin universality, whereby all spinning states are governed by a single universal coupling. A key consequence is that absorption and emission probabilities are controlled by the same coupling, yielding local detailed balance directly from on-shell data. Applied to black holes, our framework reproduces the thermal emission spectrum and relates the Hawking temperature to the condition of maximal absorption consistent with unitary time evolution.

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Summary. The manuscript develops an on-shell framework for thermal dissipation and radiation in macroscopic objects, representing equilibrium asymptotic states as on-shell particles and non-equilibrium processes via transition amplitudes. A central claim is that spinning states remain essential even for macroscopically non-rotating objects; consistency with macroscopic symmetries then implies spin universality (a single universal coupling for all spinning states). This yields local detailed balance directly from on-shell data. Applied to black holes, the framework reproduces the thermal emission spectrum and relates the Hawking temperature to the condition of maximal absorption consistent with unitary time evolution.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work offers a novel route to black-hole thermodynamics grounded in on-shell amplitudes, unitarity, and macroscopic symmetries rather than semiclassical methods. The approach could connect QFT scattering techniques to gravitational thermodynamics in a manner that makes the thermal spectrum and temperature relation emergent from the same on-shell data.

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  1. [Abstract / central observation] Abstract (central observation paragraph): the claim that consistency with macroscopic symmetries implies spin universality (governing all spinning states by a single universal coupling, even for macroscopically non-rotating objects) is load-bearing for local detailed balance and the reproduction of the thermal spectrum. The manuscript asserts this implication but does not supply an explicit derivation showing why spin-dependent couplings are forbidden by the symmetries; without that step, absorption and emission probabilities are not demonstrably controlled by the same coupling, and the derivation of the thermal spectrum from on-shell data alone remains incomplete.

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We thank the referee for their careful reading and constructive comments. The major comment identifies a point where the manuscript's central claim requires a more explicit derivation, which we address below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / central observation] Abstract (central observation paragraph): the claim that consistency with macroscopic symmetries implies spin universality (governing all spinning states by a single universal coupling, even for macroscopically non-rotating objects) is load-bearing for local detailed balance and the reproduction of the thermal spectrum. The manuscript asserts this implication but does not supply an explicit derivation showing why spin-dependent couplings are forbidden by the symmetries; without that step, absorption and emission probabilities are not demonstrably controlled by the same coupling, and the derivation of the thermal spectrum from on-shell data alone remains incomplete.

    Authors: We agree that the implication from macroscopic symmetries to spin universality requires an explicit derivation to be fully rigorous, as this step underpins the control of absorption and emission by the same coupling. The manuscript motivates the claim via the requirement that the effective on-shell description of a macroscopically non-rotating object must preserve isotropy and rotational invariance, such that any spin-dependent coupling would select a preferred axis and violate these symmetries. However, we acknowledge that a self-contained, step-by-step argument was not supplied. In the revised manuscript we will insert a new paragraph immediately after the central observation, deriving that spin-dependent couplings are forbidden because they would induce a net angular momentum direction inconsistent with the macroscopic rest frame; this forces a single universal coupling for all spinning states. With this addition, the equality of absorption and emission probabilities follows directly, completing the on-shell derivation of local detailed balance and the thermal spectrum. revision: yes

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full rationale

The provided abstract and context describe a framework deriving local detailed balance from spin universality (implied by macroscopic symmetries) and then applying it to black holes. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are exhibited that reduce the reproduced thermal spectrum or Hawking temperature to an input by construction. The reproduction is presented as a consequence of on-shell amplitudes, unitarity, and the universality premise rather than a renaming or self-definitional step. Without explicit reductions in the text, the derivation chain remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 2 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard QFT unitarity and the introduction of spin universality as a symmetry-derived principle; no explicit free parameters are named in the abstract, but the universal coupling functions as an implicit scale.

free parameters (1)
  • universal coupling
    Single coupling governing all spinning states; its value is not specified but controls absorption/emission probabilities.
axioms (2)
  • standard math Unitarity of time evolution
    Invoked to relate maximal absorption to the Hawking temperature.
  • domain assumption Macroscopic symmetries imply spin universality
    Central assumption stated in the abstract for non-rotating objects.
invented entities (1)
  • spin universality no independent evidence
    purpose: Single coupling for all spinning states to ensure consistency with macroscopic symmetries
    New concept introduced to derive detailed balance from on-shell data; no independent evidence provided in abstract.

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