2009
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-008-0739-9
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Black holes and black hole thermodynamics without event horizons

Abstract: We investigate whether black holes can be defined without using event horizons. In particular we focus on the thermodynamic properties of event horizons and the alternative, locally defined horizons. We discuss the assumptions and limitations of the proofs of the zeroth, first and second laws of black hole mechanics for both event horizons and trapping horizons. This leads to the possibility that black holes may be more usefully defined in terms of trapping horizons. We also show how Hawking radiation can also… Show more

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“…The location of the event horizon is independent of the choice of foliation. This approach however causes trouble in certain quantum inspired spacetimes [3,18] where no event horizon exists. In numerical settings, the teleological definition of the event horizon means that it is only known after a simulation is finished, preventing it from being used to analyse the simulation's state as it proceeds.…”
Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The location of the event horizon is independent of the choice of foliation. This approach however causes trouble in certain quantum inspired spacetimes [3,18] where no event horizon exists. In numerical settings, the teleological definition of the event horizon means that it is only known after a simulation is finished, preventing it from being used to analyse the simulation's state as it proceeds.…”
Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A number of useful analytic relations for the Vaidya spacetime are given in the appendix. Background detail on the properties of trapping horizons and their thermodynamics can be found in [1] and [3].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The GP coordinates are commonly presented as a set of coordinates obtained by transformation of the Schwarzschild, or Reissner-Nordström (RN) ones, in which the static time is replaced by a GP time t →t(t, r ), preserving the spherical symmetry of the problem [24,25]. We shall use a slightly different method by using the GP cartesian metric and using the vielbein related to an orthonormal basis.…”
Section: D Gullstränd-painlevé (Gp) Metricmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…With a constant foliation we must obtain η αβ = ±1, for the basis { − → E α }. In this context the Weitzenböck torsion is specially easy to obtain according to (25), and we can transform it to other representations using the corresponding vielbein.…”
Section: Appendix A: Connecting Onb Gp and Rnmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Hawking radiation is usually associated with the existence of an event horizon, but crucial in the tunneling calculation is a pole in the path integral that does not always occur at the location of the causal event horizon. This has led several authors to claim that Hawking radiation should be associated with quasi-local trapping horizons, both for black holes [7] [8] [9] and for cosmological horizons [10].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%