ON THE EVOLUTION OF A MASSLESS SCALAR FIELD IN A SCHWARZSCHILD BACKGROUND: A NEW LOOK AT HAWKING RADIATION AND THE INFORMATION PARADOX

DOI10.1142/S0218271804005249MaRDI QIDQ4832423zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kirill Melnikov, Marvin Weinstein

Publication date 4 January 2005

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0205223

zbMATH Keywords

black holesHamiltonian approachHawking radiationinformation paradox

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: We develop a Hamiltonian formalism which can be used to discuss the physics of a massless scalar field in a gravitational background of a Schwarzschild black hole. Using this formalism we show that the time evolution of the system is unitary and yet all known results such as the existence of Hawking radiation can be readily understood. We then point out that the Hamiltonian formalism leads to interesting observations about black hole entropy and the information paradox.

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