The entropy emission properties of near-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes

Abstract

Bekenstein and Mayo have revealed an interesting property of evaporating $(3+1)$-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes: their entropy emission rates $\dot S_{\text{Sch}}$ are related to their energy emission rates $P$ by the simple relation $\dot S_{\text{Sch}}=C_{\text{Sch}}\times (P/\hbar)^{1/2}$. Remembering that $(1+1)$-dimensional perfect black-body emitters are characterized by the same functional relation, $\dot S^{1+1}=C^{1+1}\times(P/\hbar)^{1/2}$, Bekenstein and Mayo have concluded that, in their entropy emission properties, $(3+1)$-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes behave effectively as $(1+1)$-dimensional entropy emitters. One naturally wonders whether all black holes behave as simple $(1+1)$-dimensional entropy emitters? In order to address this interesting question, we shall study in this paper the entropy emission properties of Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes. We shall show, in particular, that the physical properties which characterize the neutral sector of the Hawking emission spectra of these black holes can be studied {\it analytically} in the near-extremal $T_{\text{BH}}\to0$ regime. We find that the Hawking radiation spectra of massless neutral scalar fields and coupled electromagnetic-gravitational fields are characterized by the non-trivial entropy-energy relations $\dot S^{\text{Scalar}}_{\text{RN}} = -C^{\text{Scalar}}_{\text{RN}} \times (AP^3/\hbar^3)^{1/4} \ln(AP/\hbar)$ and $\dot S^{\text{Elec-Grav}}_{\text{RN}} = -C^{\text{Elec-Grav}}_{\text{RN}} \times (A^4P^9/\hbar^9)^{1/10} \ln(AP/\hbar)$ in the near-extremal $T_{\text{BH}}\to0$ limit (here $A$ is the surface area of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole). Our analytical results therefore indicate that {\it not} all black holes behave as simple $(1+1)$-dimensional entropy emitters.