Particle production in curved spacetime

Particle production in curved spacetime has been discussed through the method of complex time WKB approximation. We consider Dirac equation in non-flat spacetime to understand particle production as particle-antiparticle rotation. The method is also generalized to understand particle production through parametric resonance. To understand the method of CWKB we consider particle production in Kasner spacetime as an example.     

Particle Production in Expanding Spacetime

The complex time WKB (CWKB) approximation has been an effective technique to study particle production in expanding space time. The success of the approximation technique both in time and space dependent gauge has motivated us to study the method in relation to the time dependent approximation. In this work we try to understand the adiabatic and non-adiabatic transition within the framework of complex time WKB approximation. We find that the emergence of thermal radiation is due to some topological characteristics of cosmological spacetime that separates the spacetime into Euclidean and non-Euclidean region. This applies also to blackhole spacetime. The complex WKB trajectory approach shows that the Euclidean vacuum fluctuation is root cause of thermal particle production and is basically a Hawking effect. We also study here the sensitivity of particle production on the rise of scale factor at early times. It is found that the tunneling paths are responsible for the origin of thermal radiation whereas the slope of the scale factor determines the magnitude of the temperature of the thermal particle production. We also substantiate Hu's assertion in this connection.     

Massive Particles' de Sitter Tunneling in (3+1)-Dimensional de Sitter Spacetimes

In this paper, massive particles' Hawking radiation via tunneling from cosmological horizon of a (3+1)-dimensional de Sitter spacetime is investigated. According to Parikh's theory, when a particle tunnels across the cosmological horizon, the effective geometry is Schwarzschild-de Sitter spacetime. In this effective spacetime, a massive particle can be treated as a de Broglie S-wave. WKB method is used. The emission spectrum is obtained, and it takes the same functional form as that of massless particles.     

Schwarzschild-de Sitter黑洞的Hawking辐射

利用延拓Damour-Ruffini方法,研究Schwarzschild-de Sitter黑洞的Hawking辐射.在保持时空中总能量守恒的条件下,考虑辐射粒子对时空的反作用和黑洞事件视界与宇宙视界的相互关联后,得到黑洞辐射谱.此辐射不再是严格的纯热谱,与黑洞事件视界和宇宙视界对应Bekenstein-Hawking熵变有关,发现其结果仍然符合幺正性原理. 关键词： Damour-Ruffini方法 Hawking辐射 能量守恒     

On the speed of a test particle inside the Schwarzschild event horizon and other kinds of black holes

We present the results of an investigation of the speed of a radially infalling test particle crossing the event horizon of a black hole within a Schwarzschild spacetime. One finds that the speed as measured by a special class of observers, at rest outside the horizon and static inside the horizon, increases when the test particle approaches the horizon but decreases inside the horizon. The corresponding situation regarding black holes possessing both outer and inner horizons is also briefly discussed.     

Concept of temperature in multi-horizon spacetimes: analysis of Schwarzschild–De Sitter metric

In case of spacetimes with single horizon, there exist several well- established procedures for relating the surface gravity of the horizon to a thermodynamic temperature. Such procedures, however, cannot be extended in a straightforward manner when a spacetime has multiple horizons. In particular, it is not clear whether there exists a notion of global temperature characterizing the multi-horizon spacetimes. We examine the conditions under which a global temperature can exist for a spacetime with two horizons using the example of Schwarzschild–De Sitter (SDS) spacetime. We systematically extend different procedures (like the expectation value of stress tensor, response of particle detectors, periodicity in the Euclidean time etc.) for identifying a temperature in the case of spacetimes with single horizon to the SDS spacetime. This analysis is facilitated by using a global coordinate chart which covers the entire SDS manifold. We find that all the procedures lead to a consistent picture characterized by the following features: (a) In general, SDS spacetime behaves like a non-equilibrium system characterized by two temperatures. (b) It is not possible to associate a global temperature with SDS spacetime except when the ratio of the two surface gravities is rational. (c) Even when the ratio of the two surface gravities is rational, the thermal nature depends on the coordinate chart used. There exists a global coordinate chart in which there is global equilibrium temperature while there exist other charts in which SDS behaves as though it has two different temperatures. The coordinate dependence of the thermal nature is reminiscent of the flat spacetime in Minkowski and Rindler coordinate charts. The implications are discussed.     

Hawking radiation of Kerr–Newman–de Sitter black hole

We extend the classical Damour–Ruffini method and discuss Hawking radiation in Kerr–Newman–de Sitter (KNdS) black hole. Under the condition that the total energy, angular momentum and charge of spacetime are conserved, taking the reaction of the radiation of the particle to the spacetime and the relation between the black hole event horizon and the cosmological horizon into consideration, we derive the black hole radiation spectrum. The radiation spectrum is no longer a pure thermal one. It is related to the change of the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy corresponding the black hole event horizon and the cosmological horizon. It is consistent with the underlying unitary theory.     

Radiation Fields on Schwarzschild Spacetime

In this paper we define the radiation field for the wave equation on the Schwarzschild black hole spacetime. In this context it has two components: the rescaled restriction of the time derivative of a solution to null infinity and to the event horizon. In the process, we establish some regularity properties of solutions of the wave equation on the spacetime. In particular, we prove that the regularity of the solution across the event horizon and across null infinity is determined by the regularity and decay rate of the initial data at the event horizon and at infinity. We also show that the radiation field is unitary with respect to the conserved energy and prove support theorems for each piece of the radiation field.     

Higher Dimensional Cosmological Model With Gravitational and Cosmological "Constants"

In this paper we have considered a cosmological model representing a flat viscous universe with variable G and in the context of higher dimensional spacetime. It has been observed that in this model the particle horizon exists and the cosmological term varies as inverse square of time. The deceleration parameter and temperature are well within the observational limits. The model indicates matter and entropy generation in the early stages of the universe. Further, it is shown that our model generates all models obtained by Arbab and Singh et al. in four-dimensional space-time.     

Rayleigh-Plateau and Gregory-Laflamme instabilities of black strings

Many and very general arguments indicate that the event horizon behaves as a stretched membrane. We explore this analogy by associating the Gregory-Laflamme instability of black strings with a classical membrane instability known as the Rayleigh-Plateau instability. We show that the key features of the black string instability can be reproduced using this viewpoint. In particular, we get good agreement for the threshold mode in all dimensions and exact agreement for large spacetime dimensionality. The instability time scale is also well described within this model, as well as the dimensionality dependence. It also predicts that general nonaxisymmetric perturbations are stable. We further argue that the instability of ultraspinning black holes follows from this model.     

Kerr Black Hole in the Background of the Einstein Universe

The Vaidya-Einstein-Kerr (VEK) black hole which represents the spacetime of the Kerr black hole in a non-vacuum, asymptotically non-flat background is investigated. The energy-momentum tensor corresponding to this spacetime satisfies reasonable energy conditions. We study several properties of this black hole and compare and contrast them with those of the Kerr black hole. We investigate the effect of the background on the geometry of the event horizon by computing the equatorial and polar circumferences and determining the oblateness of the horizon. We find that the surface area of the VEK black hole gets nontrivially coupled to rotation in sharp contrast to the Kerr case. We show that the angular velocity of the VEK horizon goes up significantly as the background influence increases. By using the `equatorial tangential velocity' of the VEK horizon we classify the horizon and define the `limiting black hole' a generalization that contains the extreme Kerr black hole as a special case. Finally we investigate the Gaussian curvature and establish conditions for global embedding of the VEK black hole in Euclidean space.     

Dark matter and structure formation with late decaying particles

Since it became evident that the CDM model for cosmic structure formation predicts smaller power on large scales than observed, many alternatives have been suggested. Among them, the existence of late decaying particle can cure it by delaying the beginning of the matter domination and increasing the horizon length at that time. We discuss the realization of this scenario and present the light neutrino and the light axino as possible examples of a working particle physics model. We point out that the increased power at sub-galaxy scale predicted by this scenario could lead to rich sub-galaxy structures.     

Conventionalism and general relativity

We argue that the geometry of spacetime is a convention that can be freely chosen by the scientist; no experiment can ever determine this geometry of spacetime, only the behavior of matter in space and time. General relativity is then rewritten in terms of an arbitrary conventional geometry of spacetime in which particle trajectories are determined by forces in that geometry, and the forces determined by fields produced by sources in that geometry. As an example, we consider radial trajectories in the field of a single particle expressed in the spacetime of special relativity.     

Generalized second law of thermodynamics in Gauss–Bonnet braneworld

We investigate the validity the generalized second law of thermodynamics in a general braneworld model with curvature correction terms on the brane and in the bulk, respectively. Employing the derived entropy expression associated with the apparent horizon, we examine the time evolution of the total entropy, including the derived entropy of the apparent horizon and the entropy of the matter fields inside the apparent horizon. We show that the generalized second law of thermodynamics is fulfilled on the 3-brane embedded in the 5D spacetime with curvature corrections.     

Parikh-Wilczek Tunneling as Massive Particles from Noncommutative Schwarzschild Black Hole

In this paper, we apply the tunneling of massive particle through the quantum horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole in noncommutative spacetime. The tunneling effects lead to modified Hawking radiation due to inclusion of back-reaction effects. Our calculations show also that noncommutativity effects cause the further modifications to the hermodynamical relations in black hole. We calculate the emission rate of the massive particles' tunneling from aSchwarzschild black hole which is modified on account of noncommutativity influences. The issues of information loss and possible correlations between emitted particles are discussed. Unfortunately even by considering noncommutativity view point, there is no correlation between different modes of evaporation at least at late-time. Nevertheless, as a result of spacetime noncommutativity, information may be conserved by a stable black hole remnant.     

Positive cosmological constant,non-local gravity and horizon entropy

We discuss a class of (local and non-local) theories of gravity that share same properties: (i) they admit the Einstein spacetime with arbitrary cosmological constant as a solution; (ii) the on-shell action of such a theory vanishes and (iii) any (cosmological or black hole) horizon in the Einstein spacetime with a positive cosmological constant does not have a non-trivial entropy. The main focus is made on a recently proposed non-local model. This model has two phases: with a positive cosmological constant Λ>0$\Lambda >0$ and with zero Λ. The effective gravitational coupling differs essentially in these two phases. Generalizing the previous result of Barvinsky we show that the non-local theory in question is free of ghosts on the background of any Einstein spacetime and that it propagates a standard spin-2 particle. Contrary to the phase with a positive Λ, where the entropy vanishes for any type of horizon, in an Einstein spacetime with zero cosmological constant the horizons have the ordinary entropy proportional to the area. We conclude that, somewhat surprisingly, the presence of any, even extremely tiny, positive cosmological constant should be important for the proper resolution of the entropy problem and, possibly, the information puzzle.     

Black Holes as Atoms

Stationary spacetimes containing a black hole have several properties akin to those of atoms. For instance, such spacetimes have only three classical degrees of freedom, or observables, which may be taken to be the mass, the angular momentum, and the electric charge of the hole. There are several arguments supporting a proposal originally made by Bekenstein that quantization of these classical degrees of freedom gives an equal spacing for the horizon area spectrum of black holes. We review some of these arguments and introduce a specific Hamiltonian quantum theory of black holes. Our Hamiltonian quantum theory gives, among other things, a discrete spectrum for the classical observables, and it produces an area spectrum which is closely related to Bekenstein's proposal. We also present a foamlike model of horizons of spacetime. In our model spacetime horizon consists of microscopic Schwarzschild black holes. Applying our Hamiltonian approach to this model we find that the entropy of any horizon is one quarter of its area.     

Domain wall universe in the Einstein–Born–Infeld theory

In this Letter, we discuss the dynamics of a domain wall universe embedded into the charged black hole spacetime of the Einstein–Born–Infeld (EBI) theory. There are four kinds of possible spacetime structures, i.e., those with no horizon, the extremal one, those with two horizons (as the Reissner–Nordström black hole), and those with a single horizon (as the Schwarzshild black hole). We derive the effective cosmological equations on the wall. In contrast to the previous works, we take the contribution of the electrostatic energy on the wall into account. By examining the properties of the effective potential, we find that a bounce can always happen outside the (outer) horizon. For larger masses of the black hole, the height of the barrier between the horizon and bouncing point in the effective potential becomes smaller, leading to longer time scales of bouncing process. These results are compared with those in the previous works.