V. Moretti et S. Steidl, A BISOGNANO-WICHMANN-LIKE THEOREM IN A CERTAIN CASE OF A NON-BIFURCATE EVENT HORIZON RELATED TO AN EXTREME REISSNER-NORDSTROM BLACK-HOLE, Classical and quantum gravity, 13(8), 1996, pp. 2121-2143
Thermal Wightman functions of a massless scalar field are studied with
in the framework of a 'near horizon' static background model of an ext
remal R-N black hole. This model is built up by using global Carter-li
ke coordinates over an infinite set of Bertotti-Robinson submanifolds
glued together. The analytical extendibility beyond the horizon is imp
osed as constraints on (thermal) Wightman's functions defined on a Ber
totti-Robinson submanifold. It turns out that only the Bertotti-Robins
on vacuum state, i.e. T = 0, satisfies the above requirement. Furtherm
ore, the extension of this state onto the whole manifold is proved to
coincide exactly with the vacuum state in the global Carter-like coord
inates. Hence a theorem similar to the Bisognano-Wichmann theorem for
the Minkowski spacetime in terms of Wightman functions holds with vani
shing 'Unruh-Rindler temperature'. Furthermore, the Carter-like vacuum
restricted to a Bertotti-Robinson region, resulting in a pure state t
here, has vanishing entropy despite the presence of event horizons. So
me comments on the real extremal R-N black hole are given.