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Observables in quantum field theory on a collapsing black hole background

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-11-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the quantum radiation from a curved background using scalar observables constructed from the (1+1) dimensional renormalized stress-energy tensor (RSET). We compute energy density U\cal U, flux F\cal F and pressure P\cal P for an arbitrary collapse scenario and an arbitrary observer. The results show a clear structure: FU\cal F - \cal U represents the collapse-independent ingoing modes, F+U\cal F + \cal U represents the collapse-dependent outgoing modes and PU\cal P - \cal U represents the trace anomaly. We also compute the observables constructed from the perception renormalized stress-energy tensor (PeRSET). We find they have the same collapse-dependent contribution comparing to their RSET-related counterparts. For free-falling observers, in particular, the PeRSET-related observables are the same as the corresponding RSET-related ones, except the energy densities differ by the trace anomaly.

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@article{arxiv.2004.13276,
  title  = {Observables in quantum field theory on a collapsing black hole background},
  author = {Micheal S. Berger and Zhi Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.13276},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures, the paper is rewritten, additional results on perceived observables added

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