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Regular Quantum States on the Cauchy Horizon of a Charged Black Hole

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-01-29 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider the quantum stress-energy tensor of a massless scalar field near the Cauchy horizon interior to the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole spacetime. We construct the quantum state by considering the two-point function on a negative definite metric obtained by a double analytic continuation from the Lorentzian manifold, complexifying both the tt and polar coordinates. We enforce periodicity in the Euclideanized tt coordinate with periodicity equal to the reciprocal of the temperature of the Cauchy horizon, a necessary condition for avoiding a conical singularity at the inner horizon. We show by explicit construction that our quantum state satisfies the Hadamard condition on the Cauchy horizon. The expectation value of the quantum stress-energy tensor on the Cauchy horizon is given in closed form.

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@article{arxiv.1904.05941,
  title  = {Regular Quantum States on the Cauchy Horizon of a Charged Black Hole},
  author = {Peter Taylor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.05941},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Corrected an error in the uniform asymptotic analysis. Also significantly changed the development of the asymptotic analysis. New Appendix added