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Is the semi-classical analysis valid for extreme black holes?

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-25 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The surface gravity for the extreme Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole is zero suggesting that it has a zero temperature. However, the direct evaluation of the Bogolubov's coefficients, using the standard semi-classical analysis, indicates that the temperature of the extreme black hole is ill definite: the Bogolubov's coefficients obtained by performing the usual analysis of a collapsing model of a thin shell, and employing the geometrical optical approximation, do not obey the normalization conditions. We argue that the failure of the employement of semi-classical analysis for the extreme black hole is due to the absence of orthonormal quantum modes in the vicinity of the event horizon in this particular case.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0306030,
  title  = {Is the semi-classical analysis valid for extreme black holes?},
  author = {F. G. Alvarenga and A. B. Batista and J. C. Fabris and G. T. Marques},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0306030},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Latex file, 10 pages. A new section was included. New title, new references and others minors modifications. To appear in Physics Letters A

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