Scalar field quantization on the (2+1)-dimensional black hole background

Oct 5, 1993
25 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 49 (1994) 1929-1943
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Report number:
  • MIT-CTP-2243

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Abstract: (arXiv)
The quantization of a massless conformally coupled scalar field on the 2+1 dimensional Anti de Sitter black hole background is presented. The Green's function is calculated, using the fact that the black hole is Anti de Sitter space with points identified, and taking into account the fact that the black hole spacetime is not globally hyperbolic. It is shown that the Green's function calculated in this way is the Hartle-Hawking Green's function. The Green's function is used to compute , which is regular on the black hole horizon, and diverges at the singularity. A particle detector response function outside the horizon is also calculated and shown to be a fermi type distribution. The backreaction from is calculated exactly for the vacuum spacetime (with zero mass) and is shown to give rise to a curvature singularity at r=0 shielded by a horizon, indicating that the endpoint of evaporation should be regarded as a spacetime with a horizon.
  • space-time: de Sitter
  • field theory: scalar
  • dimension: 2
  • dimension: 3
  • invariance: conformal
  • black hole
  • quantization
  • n-point function: 2