Quantum scalar field in D-dimensional static black hole space–times

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Abstract: An Euclidean approach for investigating quantum aspects of a scalar field living on a class of D-dimensional static black hole space-times, including the extremal ones, is reviewed. The method makes use of a near horizon approximation of the metric and zeta-function formalism for evaluating the partition function and the expectation value of the field fluctuations <phi2(x)>. After a review of the non-extreme black hole case, the extreme one is considered in some details. In this case, there is no conical singularity, but the finite imaginary time compactification introduces a cusp singularity. It is found that the zeta-function regularized partition function can be defined, and the quantum fluctuations are finite on the horizon, as soon as the cusp singularity is absent, and the corresponding temperature is T=0.












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