Tunneling mechanism in Kerr-Newman black hole and dimensional reduction near the horizon

It is shown that the derivation of the Hawking radiation from a rotating black hole on the basis of the tunneling mechanism is greatly simplified by using the technique of the dimensional reduction near the horizon. This technique is illustrated for the original derivation by Parikh and Wilczek, but it is readily applied to a variant of the method such as suggested by Banerjee and Majhi. (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier B.V.