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Hawking Radiation and Covariant Anomalies

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Generalising the method of Wilczek and collaborators we provide a derivation of Hawking radiation from charged black holes using only covariant gauge and gravitational anomalies. The reliability and universality of the anomaly cancellation approach to Hawking radiation is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.0707.2449,
  title  = {Hawking Radiation and Covariant Anomalies},
  author = {Rabin Banerjee and Shailesh Kulkarni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.2449},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Minor changes, conforms to published version