Two-dimensional dilaton gravity coupled to an Abelian gauged field
Mar, 1995Citations per year
Abstract: (arXiv)
The most general two-dimensional dilaton gravity theory coupled to an Abelian gauge field is considered. It is shown that, up to spacetime diffeomorphisms and gauge transformations, the field equations admit a two-parameter family of distinct, static solutions. For theories with black hole solutions, coordinate invariant expressions are found for the energy, charge, surface gravity, Hawking temperature and entropy of the black holes. The Hawking temperature is proportional to the surface gravity as expected, and both vanish in the case of extremal black holes in the generic theory. A Hamiltonian analysis of the general theory is performed, and a complete set of (global) Dirac physical observables is obtained. The theory is then quantized using the Dirac method in the WKB approximation. A connection between the black hole entropy and the imaginary part of the WKB phase of the Dirac quantum wave functional is found for arbitrary values of the mass and charge. The imaginary part of the phase is also shown to vanish for extremal black holes.- gravitation
- field theory: dilaton
- gauge field theory: U(1)
- dimension: 2
- field equations: solution
- black hole
- temperature: Hawking
- quantization
- approximation: semiclassical
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