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arxiv: hep-th/0608098 · v2 · pith:VCYWKFTJnew · submitted 2006-08-15 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc

Hawking temperature in the tunneling picture

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keywords hawkingtunnelinggammatemperatureointpictureproptoradiation
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We examine Hawking radiation from a Schwarzschild black hole in several reference frames using the quasi-classical tunneling picture. It is shown that when one uses, $\Gamma \propto \exp(Im [\oint p dr])$, rather than, $\Gamma \propto \exp(2 Im [\int p dr])$, for the tunneling probability/decay rate one obtains twice the original Hawking temperature. The former expression for $\Gamma$ is argued to be correct since $\oint p dr$ is invariant under canonical transformations, while $\int p dr$ is not. Thus, either the tunneling methods of calculating Hawking radiation are suspect or the Hawking temperature is twice that originally calculated.

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