Bogoliubov transformations for amplitudes in black-hole evaporation

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DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2005.03.034zbMATH Open1247.83083arXivgr-qc/0510027OpenAlexW2011345910MaRDI QIDQ451675FDOQ451675

P. D. D'Eath, A. N. St. J. Farley

Publication date: 23 September 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The familiar approach to quantum radiation following collapse to a black hole proceeds via Bogoliubov transformations, and yields probabilities for final outcomes. In our (complex) approach, we find quantum amplitudes, not just probabilities, by following Feynman's +iepsilon prescription. Initial and final data for Einstein gravity and (say) a massless scalar field are specified on a pair of asymptotically-flat space-like hypersurfaces SigmaI and SigmaF; both are diffeomorphic to BbbR3. Denote by T the (real) Lorentzian proper-time interval between the surfaces, as measured at spatial infinity. Then rotate: TomidTmidexp(iheta),0<hetaleqpi/2. The {it classical} boundary-value problem is expected to be well-posed on a region of topology IimesBbbR3, where I is a closed interval. For a locally-supersymmetric theory, the quantum amplitude should be dominated by the semi-classical expression exp(iSmclass), where Smclass is the classical action. One finds the Lorentzian quantum amplitude from the limit hetao0+. In the usual approach, the only possible such final surfaces are in the strong-field region shortly before the curvature singularity. In our approach one can put arbitrary smooth gravitational data on SigmaF, provided that it has the correct mass M -- the singularity is by-passed in the analytic continuation. Here, we consider Bogoliubov transformations and their possible relation to the probability distribution and density matrix in the traditional approach. We find that our probability distribution for configurations of the final scalar field cannot be expressed in terms of the diagonal elements of some non-trivial density-matrix distribution.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0510027





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