%0 Journal Article %1 citeulike:4037308 %A Visser, Matt %D 2001 %K black-holes, hawking-radiation %T Essential and inessential features of Hawking radiation %U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0106111 %X There are numerous derivations of the Hawking effect available in the literature. They emphasise different features of the process, and sometimes make markedly different physical assumptions. This article presents a ``minimalist'' argument, and strips the derivation of as much excess baggage as possible. All that is really necessary is quantum physics plus a slowly evolving future apparent horizon (*not* an event horizon). In particular, neither the Einstein equations nor Bekenstein entropy are necessary (nor even useful) in deriving Hawking radiation.

@article{citeulike:4037308, abstract = {There are numerous derivations of the Hawking effect available in the literature. They emphasise different features of the process, and sometimes make markedly different physical assumptions. This article presents a ``minimalist'' argument, and strips the derivation of as much excess baggage as possible. All that is really necessary is quantum physics plus a slowly evolving future apparent horizon (*not* an event horizon). In particular, neither the Einstein equations nor Bekenstein entropy are necessary (nor even useful) in deriving Hawking radiation.}, added-at = {2009-02-18T14:54:47.000+0100}, author = {Visser, Matt}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/272058ecbe75f3b50c8bc2f2f701e4861/janpaniev}, citeulike-article-id = {4037308}, eprint = {hep-th/0106111}, interhash = {c28f2684616a2c5ff254a812c2ff10b4}, intrahash = {72058ecbe75f3b50c8bc2f2f701e4861}, keywords = {black-holes, hawking-radiation}, month = Jun, posted-at = {2009-02-12 00:54:42}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2009-02-18T14:54:48.000+0100}, title = {Essential and inessential features of Hawking radiation}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0106111}, year = 2001 }