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Stress-energy tensor for a massless spin 1/2 field in static black hole spacetimes

Item Type:Article
Title:Stress-energy tensor for a massless spin 1/2 field in static black hole spacetimes
Creators Name:Carlson, E.D., Hirsch, W.H., Obermayer, B., Anderson, P.R. and Groves, P.B.
Abstract:The stress-energy tensor for the massless spin 1/2 field is numerically computed outside and on the event horizons of both charged and uncharged static nonrotating black holes, corresponding to the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstroem, and extreme Reissner-Nordstroem solutions of Einsteins equations. The field is assumed to be in a thermal state at the black hole temperature. Comparison is made between the numerical results and previous analytic approximations for the stress-energy tensor in these spacetimes. For the Schwarzschild (charge zero) solution, it is shown that the stress energy differs even in sign from the analytic approximation. For the Reissner-Nordstroem and extreme Reissner-Nordstroem solutions, divergences predicted by the analytic approximations are shown not to exist.
Source:Physical Review Letters
ISSN:0031-9007
Publisher:American Physical Society
Volume:91
Number:5
Page Range:051301
Date:1 August 2003
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.051301
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