Particle creation by a black hole as a consequence of the Casimir effect

The programme of reduction of black-hole evaporation to quantum-field effects in flat space-time is carried out. The consideration of the potential-barrier finite conductivity enables to eliminate the pathology of vacuum stress-tensor on the horizon and to reveal that the balck-body radiation should be created in the whole region [3 M, ∞]. © 1984 Società Italiana di Fisica