Hawking Radiation from the Higher-Dimensional Schwarzschild de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter Black Holes via Covariant Anomaly

Abstract

Very recently, a conceptually clean and economical anomaly cancellation method, based on the initial work of Robinson and Wilczek, on Hawking radiation was proposed. On the basis of this formalism, we investigate Hawking radiation from the higher dimensional Schwarzschild de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter black holes. To describe the observable physics in de Sitter space, we construct the effective field theory between the event horizon and cosmological horizon. Our result shows that when the underlying diffeomorphism symmetries are saved at the quantum level, Hawking radiation, from not only the event horizon but also the cosmological horizon in the higher dimensional space time, can be determined by the covariant compensating fluxes of energy momentum tensor. Meanwhile, we also discuss the exact radiation spectrum by incorporating the self-gravitational interaction and back reaction of the outgoing modes.