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Relationship between Hawking Radiation and Gravitational Anomalies

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2008-11-26 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We show that in order to avoid a breakdown of general covariance at the quantum level the total flux in each outgoing partial wave of a quantum field in a black hole background must be equal to that of a (1+1)-dimensional blackbody at the Hawking temperature.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0502074,
  title  = {Relationship between Hawking Radiation and Gravitational Anomalies},
  author = {Sean P. Robinson and Frank Wilczek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0502074},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

5 pages, 1 figure; v2: typo corrected, reference added; v3: comment added, minor editorial changes to agree with published version