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Quantum Ergoregion Instability

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-11-03 v1

Abstract

We have shown that, as in the case of black holes, an ergosphere itself with no event horizon inside can evaporate spontaneously, giving energy radiation to spatial infinity until the ergoregion disappears. However, the feature of his quantum ergoregion instability is very much different from black hole radiation. It is rather analogous to a laser amplification. This analysis is based on the canonical quantization of a neutral scalar field in the presence of unstable modes characterized by complex frequencies in a simple model for a rapidly rotating star.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9705015,
  title  = {Quantum Ergoregion Instability},
  author = {Gungwon Kang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9705015},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

10 pages, latex, one epsfig, to appear in the Proceedings of the APCTP Winter School on Duality of String Theory, Korea, Feb. 17-28, 1997; a brief version of gr-qc/9701040 with slightly different presentation