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Hawking temperature in the tunneling picture

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-07-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We examine Hawking radiation from a Schwarzschild black hole in several reference frames using the quasi-classical tunneling picture. It is shown that when one uses, Γexp(Im[pdr])\Gamma \propto \exp(Im [\oint p dr]), rather than, Γexp(2Im[pdr])\Gamma \propto \exp(2 Im [\int p dr]), for the tunneling probability/decay rate one obtains twice the original Hawking temperature. The former expression for Γ\Gamma is argued to be correct since pdr\oint p dr is invariant under canonical transformations, while pdr\int p dr is not. Thus, either the tunneling methods of calculating Hawking radiation are suspect or the Hawking temperature is twice that originally calculated.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0608098,
  title  = {Hawking temperature in the tunneling picture},
  author = {Emil T. Akhmedov and Valeria Akhmedova and Douglas Singleton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0608098},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

7 pages revtex, no figures, added discussions/clarifications, added references, to be published PLB