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Quantum general relativity and Hawking radiation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

In a previous paper we have set up the Wheeler-DeWitt equation which describes the quantum general relativistic collapse of a spherical dust cloud. In the present paper we specialize this equation to the case of matter perturbations around a black hole, and show that in the WKB approximation, the wave-functional describes an eternal black hole in equilibrium with a thermal bath at Hawking temperature.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0208083,
  title  = {Quantum general relativity and Hawking radiation},
  author = {Cenalo Vaz and Claus Kiefer and T. P. Singh and Louis Witten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0208083},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, minor revisions in: (i) para 5 of Introduction, (ii) para following Eqn. (10). Revised version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

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