1 Introduction
Black hole (BH) has played important roles in the developments of theoretical physics. Fur-
thermore, during the past decades numerous observations have suggested the existence of
massive and supermassive black holes at the center of typical galaxies. The recent detections
of gravitational waves by the LIGO and VIRGO collaborations [1,2,3] from the merging of
binary astrophysical black holes put the reality of black holes in cosmos beyond doubt. On
the theoretical side BH physics play key roles in understanding of quantum gravity which
were studied extensively in the past decades.
The physical processes governing the dynamics of the interior of the BH are not well
understood. The prime reason is that the interior region of BH is causally disconnected from
the exterior region. Any in-falling signal smoothly passes through the event horizon and no
signal can escape from inside the event horizon to an outside observer. This phenomena
suggests that the interior of a BH is like a cosmological background bounded by the event
horizon. This interpretation is supported from the fact that inside the horizon, the roles
of coordinates tand ras the time-like and space-like coordinates are switched. There have
been works in the past to treat the interior of a BH as a cosmological background. For
example the idea that the interior of BH may be replaced by a non-singular dS space-time
was studied in [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12], see also [13,14,15,16,17,18] for similar ideas but
in somewhat different contexts. The main motivation to replace the interior of BH by the dS
background was to remove the singularity of BH. On the physical ground one may expect that
the singularity of BH is a shortcoming of the classical general relativity. On very small scales,
say on Planck scale, it is expected that the quantum gravity effects can not be neglected. It is
expected that these effects provide mechanisms to resolve the singularity inside the BH. For
example, the idea of maximum curvature of space-time [19,6,7] is an interesting proposal in
this direction.
Like the interior of the BH, the white hole (WH) background is more akin to a cosmological
spacetime in which the global structure of spacetime suggests that the past singularity r=
0 behaves as the onset of big bang singularity in which the signal generated from r= 0
inside the WH propagates towards the future null infinity I+. The WH spacetime can be
viewed as an anisotropic cosmological background with its spatial part having the topology
R×S2known as the Kantowski-Sachs [20] spacetime. On the other hand, perturbations in
FLRW cosmological backgrounds have been studied extensively. Indeed, it is believed that
all structures in observable Universe are generated from tiny quantum fluctuations generated
during primordial inflation. It is therefore a natural question to study perturbations inside
the WH as a particular cosmological background. With these discussions in mind, in this
work first we study some basic cosmological properties of the WH geometry as part of an
eternal Schwarzschild manifold. Then we study the quantum perturbations of a test scalar
field generated deep inside the WH which will propagate towards the past event horizon and
eventually reaching to an observer far outside the BH. We calculate the spectrum of Hawking
radiation as measured by this observer. For a related study see also [21].
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