Published May 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Black hole temperature: Minimal coupling vs conformal coupling

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Tehran, North Kargar Avenue, Teharn 14395-547 (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan 84156-83111 (Iran, Islamic Republic of)

Description

In this article, we discuss the propagation of scalar fields in conformally transformed spacetimes with either minimal or conformal coupling. The conformally coupled equation of motion is transformed into a one-dimensional Schrödinger-like equation with an invariant potential under conformal transformation. In a second stage, we argue that calculations based on conformal coupling yield the same Hawking temperature as those based on minimal coupling. Finally, it is conjectured that the quasi normal modes of black holes are invariant under conformal transformation

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2014.02.020

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.aop.2014.02.020;
arXiv
arXiv:1403.1014v2;
PII
S0003-4916(14)00045-1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Annals of Physics (New York)
Journal Volume
344
Journal Issue
Complete
Journal Page Range
p. 232-252
ISSN
0003-4916
CODEN
APNYA6

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