On the Mechanism of Hawking Radiation

TL;DR

This paper derives Hawking radiation as a tunneling process of massless particles through a non-singular horizon, incorporating back reaction effects for a self-consistent black hole evaporation model.

Contribution

It presents a novel derivation of Hawking radiation considering back reaction and non-singular horizons, advancing the understanding of black hole thermodynamics.

Findings

Hawking radiation can be modeled as tunneling in a non-singular horizon

Back reaction effects are crucial for a self-consistent description

The approach aligns with previous theoretical frameworks

Abstract

In this paper we derived Hawking radiation as a tuneling of massless particles through a non-singular horizon in the s-wave approximation. The back reaction of emitted modes on the background black hole geometry is self-consistently taken into account. This is arXive copy of the paper published in the Russian journal "Gravitation and Cosmology" in 1999.