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Quantum Stability of Accelerated Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study quantum aspects of the accelerated black holes in some detail. Explicitly shown is the fact that a uniform acceleration stabilizes certain charged black holes against the well-known thermal evaporation. Furthermore, a close inspection of the geometry reveals that this is possible only for near-extremal black holes and that most nonextremal varieties continue to evaporate with a modified spectrum under the acceleration. We also introduce a two-dimensional toy model where the energy-momentum flow is easily obtained for general accelerations, and find the behavior to be in accordance with the four-dimensional results. After a brief comparison to the classical system of a uniformly accelerated charge, we close by pointing out the importance of this result in the WKB expansion of the black hole pair-creation rate.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9505021,
  title  = {Quantum Stability of Accelerated Black Holes},
  author = {Piljin Yi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9505021},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

LaTeX, 22 pages, 5 uuencoded figures (minor errors corrected, more discussions on the case with black holes formed by gravitational collapse.)