Black Holes, Hawking Radiation and the Information Paradox

dc.creatorWeinstein, Marvin
dc.date2002-11-21
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dc.descriptionThis talk is about results obtained by Kirill Melnikov and myself pertaining to the canonical quantization of a massless scalar field in the presence of a Schwarzschild black hole. After a brief summary of what we did and how we reproduce the familiar Hawking temperature and energy flux, I focus attention on how our discussion differs from other treatments. In particular I show that we can define a system which fakes an equilibrium thermodynamic object whose entropy is given by the $A/4$ (where $A$ is the area of the black hole horizon), but for which the assignment of a classical entropy to the system is incorrect. Finally I briefly discuss a discretized version of the theory which seems to indicate that things work in a surprising way near $r=0$.
dc.description11 pages, 1 figure, talk given at Sakharov Conference on Physics 2002
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0211205
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0211205
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/51663
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleBlack Holes, Hawking Radiation and the Information Paradox
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