Tunneling Effect Near Weakly Isolated Horizon
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
The tunneling effect near a weakly isolated horizon (WIH) has been studied. By applying the null geodesic method of Parikh and Wilczek and Hamilton-Jacibi method of Angheben et al. to a weakly isolated horizon, we recover the semiclassical emission rate in the tunneling process. We show that the tunneling effect exists in a wide class of spacetimes admitting weakly isolated horizons. The general thermodynamic nature of WIH is then confirmed.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0702033,
title = {Tunneling Effect Near Weakly Isolated Horizon},
author = {Xiaoning Wu and Sijie Gao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0702033},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
7 pages, accepted for publication in Physical Review D