Title

Semiclassical Methods in Curved Spacetime and Black Hole Thermodynamics

Authors

Horacio E. Camblong, University of San FranciscoFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-29-2005

Abstract

Improved semiclassical techniques are developed and applied to a treatment of a real scalar field in a D-dimensional gravitational background. This analysis, leading to a derivation of the thermodynamics of black holes, is based on the simultaneous use of (i) a near-horizon description of the scalar field in terms of conformal quantum mechanics; (ii) a novel generalized WKB framework; and (iii) curved-spacetime phase-space methods. In addition, this improved semiclassical approach is shown to be asymptotically exact in the presence of hierarchical expansions of a near-horizon type. Most importantly, this analysis further supports the claim that the thermodynamics of black holes is induced by their near-horizon conformal invariance.

Comments

Article published in Physical Review D, 71, pp 124040 (2005).

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.124040

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.71.124040

Recommended Citation

Camblong, Horacio E., "Semiclassical Methods in Curved Spacetime and Black Hole Thermodynamics" (2005). Physics and Astronomy. 8.
https://repository.usfca.edu/phys/8