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On the gravitational energy of the Hawking wormhole

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-06 v3

Abstract

The surface energy for a conformally flat spacetime which represents the Hawking wormhole in spherical (static) Rindler coordinates is computed using the Hawking - Hunter formalism for non asymptotically - flat spacetimes. The physical gravitational Hamiltonian is proportional to the Rindler acceleration g of the hyperbolic observer and is finite on the event horizon ksi = b (b-the Planck length, ksi - the Minkowski interval). The corresponding temperature of the system of particles associated to the massless scalar field Psi, coupled conformally to Einstein's equations, is given by the Davies - Unruh temperature up to a constant factor of order unity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0209083,
  title  = {On the gravitational energy of the Hawking wormhole},
  author = {H. Culetu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0209083},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

9 pages, chapter 4 removed, to appear in Int. Jour. Mod. Phys. A