Hawking Temperature as the Total Gauss-Bonnet Invariant of the Region Outside a Black Hole

DOI10.1140/EPJC/S10052-023-11594-9arXiv2208.12993MaRDI QIDQ6408992FDOQ6408992

Authors: Bayram Tekin 

Publication date: 27 August 2022

Abstract: We provide two novel ways to compute the surface gravity ($kappa$) and the Hawking temperature $(T_H)$ of a stationary black hole: in the first method $T_H$ is given as the three-volume integral of the Gauss-Bonnet invariant (or the Kretschmann scalar for Ricci-flat metrics) in the total region outside the event horizon; in the second method it is given as the surface integral of the Riemann tensor contracted with the covariant derivative of a Killing vector on the event horizon. To arrive at these new formulas for the black hole temperature (and the related surface gravity), we first construct a new differential geometric identity using the Bianchi identity and an antisymmetric rank-$2$ tensor, valid for spacetimes with at least one Killing vector field. The Gauss-Bonnet tensor and the Gauss-Bonnet scalar play a particular role in this geometric identity. We calculate the surface gravity and the Hawking temperature of the Kerr and the extremal Reissner-Nordstr"om holes as examples.

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