Quantum Field Theory of black hole perturbations with backreaction. Part III. Spherically symmetric 2nd order Maxwell sector

Abstract In this paper we extend reduced phase space approach to black hole perturbation theory to Maxwell matter. We expand the resulting reduced Hamiltonian to second order in the graviton and photon perturbations and find that the corresponding equations of motion match the ones derived in the literature. Accordingly our approach reproduces previous results at second order. Its real virtue lies in the fact that it extends to any order in perturbation theory in a manifestly gauge invariant fashion, includes backreaction effects and covers the black hole interior due to working in the regular Painlevé Gullstrand gauge.