A mode-sum prescription for the renormalized stress energy tensor on black hole spacetimes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2022-10-04 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
In this paper, we describe an extremely efficient method for computing the renormalized stress-energy tensor of a quantum scalar field in spherically-symmetric black hole spacetimes. The method applies to a scalar field with arbitrary field parameters. We demonstrate the utility of the method by computing the renormalized stress-energy tensor for a scalar field in the Schwarzschild black hole spacetime, applying our results to discuss the null energy condition and the semi-classical backreaction.
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@article{arxiv.2201.05174,
title = {A mode-sum prescription for the renormalized stress energy tensor on black hole spacetimes},
author = {Peter Taylor and Cormac Breen and Adrian Ottewill},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.05174},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 figures. Paper has been extended with further discussion and results added. Published in Physical Review D