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Comment on `Hawking radiation from fluctuating black holes'

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-02-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Takahashi & Soda (2010 Class. Quantum Grav. v27 p175008, arXiv:1005.0286) have recently considered the effect (at lowest non-trivial order) of dynamical, quantized gravitational fluctuations on the spectrum of scalar Hawking radiation from a collapsing Schwarzschild black hole. However, due to an unfortunate choice of gauge, the dominant (even divergent) contribution to the coefficient of the spectrum correction that they identify is a pure gauge artifact. I summarize the logic of their calculation, comment on the divergences encountered in its course and comment on how they could be eliminated, and thus the calculation be completed.

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@article{arxiv.1008.5059,
  title  = {Comment on `Hawking radiation from fluctuating black holes'},
  author = {Igor Khavkine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.5059},
  year   = {2011}
}

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12 pages, 1 fig; feynmp, amsrefs