Published July 12, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Isotropic coordinates for Schwarzschild black hole radiation

  • 1. School of Physics and Optoelectronic Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning 116024 (China)

Description

The isotropic coordinate system of Schwarzschild spacetime has several attractive properties similar with the Painleve-Gullstrand coordinates. The purpose for us to choose the isotropic coordinates is to resolve the ambiguities of the tunneling picture in Hawking radiation. Based on energy conservation, we investigate Hawking radiation as massless particles tunneling across the event horizon of the Schwarzschild black hole in the isotropic coordinates. Because the amplitude for a black hole to emit particles is related to the amplitude for it to absorb, we must take into account the contribution of ingoing solution to the action, ImS=ImSout-ImSin. It will be shown that the imaginary part of action for ingoing particles is zero (ImSin=0) in the Painleve-Gullstrand coordinates, so the equation ImS=ImSout-ImSin is valid in both the isotropic coordinates and the Painleve-Gullstrand coordinates

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.05.046;
PII
S0370-2693(07)00645-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
650
Journal Issue
5-6
Journal Page Range
p. 317-320
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39030402
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
AMPLITUDES; BLACK HOLES; COORDINATES; ENERGY CONSERVATION; EQUATIONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; SCHWARZSCHILD RADIUS; SPACE-TIME; TUNNEL EFFECT
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.