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, , rather than, , for the tunneling probability/decay rate one obtains twice the original Hawking temperature. The former expression for is argued to be correct since is invariant under canonical transformations, while 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