Moving mirrors and event horizons in non-flat background geometry

Abstract

Abstract Moving mirrors have been used for a long time as simple models for studying various properties of black hole radiation, such as the thermal spectrum and entanglement entropy. These models are typically constructed to mimic the collapse of a spherically symmetric distribution of matter in the Minkowski background. We generalize this correspondence to the case of non-trivial background geometry and consider two examples, the Schwarzschild—de Sitter black hole and the Bañados–Teitelboim–Zanelli (BTZ) black hole. In the BTZ case we were also able to show that this approach works for the spinning black hole which has only axial symmetry.