Conformally isometric embeddings and Hawking temperature
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2019-09-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Differential Geometry
Abstract
We find necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of a locally isometric embedding of a vacuum space-time into a conformally-flat 5-space. We explicitly construct such embeddings for any spherically symmetric Lorentzian metric in dimensions as a hypersurface in . For the Schwarzschild metric the embedding is global, and extends through the horizon all the way to the singularity. We discuss the asymptotic properties of the embedding in the context of Penrose's theorem on Schwarzschild causality. We finally show that the Hawking temperature of the Schwarzschild metric agrees with the Unruh temperature measured by an observer moving along hyperbolae in .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1812.05468,
title = {Conformally isometric embeddings and Hawking temperature},
author = {Maciej Dunajski and Paul Tod},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.05468},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Final version, to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity