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A Note on Vacuum Polarisation and Hawking Radiation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2012-05-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We re-examine vacuum polarisation of a scalar field in a quasi-local volume including the horizon. We find that Hawking radiation rate is derived as a pure decay of vacuum due to scalar field interaction with classical gravity exactly in the same way as the origin of vacuum polarisation effect in Electrodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1205.3805,
  title  = {A Note on Vacuum Polarisation and Hawking Radiation},
  author = {Arundhati Dasgupta and Shohreh Rahmati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.3805},
  year   = {2012}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures