Published September 7, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Hawking radiation from fluctuating black holes

  • 1. Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501 (Japan)

Description

Classically, black holes have a rigid event horizon. However, quantum mechanically, the event horizon of black holes becomes fuzzy due to quantum fluctuations. We study Hawking radiation of a real scalar field from a fluctuating black hole. To quantize metric perturbations, we derive the quadratic action for those in the black hole background. Then, we calculate cubic interaction terms in the action for the scalar field. Using these results, we obtain the spectrum of Hawking radiation in the presence of the interaction between the scalar field and the metric. It turns out that the spectrum deviates from the Planck spectrum due to quantum fluctuations of the metric.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/27/17/175008

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/27/17/175008;
PII
S0264-9381(10)56395-0;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
27
Journal Issue
17
Journal Page Range
[39 p.]
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42034451
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ACTION INTEGRAL; BLACK HOLES; COSMOLOGY; DISTURBANCES; EMISSION SPECTRA; FLUCTUATIONS; METRICS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; SCALAR FIELDS
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; INTEGRALS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPECTRA; VARIATIONS