Schwinger Mechanism and Hawking Radiation as Quantum Tunneling
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-08-31 v1
Abstract
The common interpretation of the Hawking radiation as quantum tunneling has some ambiguity such as coordinate-dependence of tunneling rate and non-invariance of the action under canonical transformations. It is shown that the tunneling process of black holes can be successfully described by Rindler coordinates in analogy with the Schwinger mechanism for pair production. We study the tunneling process of a charged black hole and a BTZ black hole.
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@article{arxiv.0709.4313,
title = {Schwinger Mechanism and Hawking Radiation as Quantum Tunneling},
author = {Sang Pyo Kim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.4313},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
Revtex4, 5 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the proceedings of the 10th Asia Pacific Physics Conference (APPC10), Pohang, Korea, 21-24 Aug. 2007