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.
Cite
@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