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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 311 4 c Solution by
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In a collapsing spacetime, positive-frequency in-modes are defined at past null infinity and outgoing modes at future null infinity. Tracing a late outgoing wave packet backward toward the forming event horizon produces an exponential blueshift. Its rapidly varying phase has both positive- and negative-frequency parts relative to the past time coordinate, so the Bogoliubov coefficient is nonzero. The resulting bosonic occupation numbers have the Bose-Einstein distribution atwhere is the surface gravity. The outgoing quanta form Hawking radiation, while their correlated partners cross the horizon.
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