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Geon black holes and quantum field theory

arXiv:1001.0124 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/222/1/012038

Abstract

Black hole spacetimes that are topological geons in the sense of Sorkin can be constructed by taking a quotient of a stationary black hole that has a bifurcate Killing horizon. We discuss the geometric properties of these geon black holes and the Hawking-Unruh effect on them. We in particular show how correlations in the Hawking-Unruh effect reveal to an exterior observer features of the geometry that are classically confined to the regions behind the horizons.

11 pages. Talk given at the First Mediterranean Conference on Classical and Quantum Gravity, Kolymbari (Crete, Greece), September 2009. Dedicated to Rafael Sorkin. v2: typesetting bug fixed