The Hawking paradox and the Bekenstein resolution in higher-dimensional spacetimes

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2018.06.011MaRDI QIDQ1672279zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Shahar Hod

Publication date 7 September 2018

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02574

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: The black-hole information puzzle has attracted much attention over the years from both physicists and mathematicians. One of the most intriguing suggestions to resolve the information paradox is due to Bekenstein, who has stressed the fact that the low-energy part of the semi-classical black-hole emission spectrum is partly blocked by the curvature potential that surrounds the black hole. As explicitly shown by Bekenstein, this fact implies that the grey-body emission spectrum of a (3+1)-dimensional black hole is considerably less entropic than the corresponding radiation spectrum of a perfectly thermal black-body emitter. Using standard ideas from quantum information theory, it was shown by Bekenstein that, in principle, the filtered Hawking radiation emitted by a (3+1)-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole may carry with it a substantial amount of information, the information which was suspected to be lost. It is of physical interest to test the general validity of the "information leak" scenario suggested by Bekenstein as a possible resolution to the Hawking information puzzle. In the present paper we analyze the semi-classical entropy emission properties of higher-dimensional black holes. In particular, we provide evidence that the characteristic Hawking quanta of $(D+1)$-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes in the large $Dgg1$ regime are almost unaffected by the spacetime curvature outside the black-hole horizon. This fact implies that, in the large-$D$ regime, the Hawking black-hole radiation spectra are almost purely thermal, thus suggesting that the emitted quanta cannot carry the amount of information which is required in order to resolve the information paradox. Our analysis therefore suggests that the elegant information leak scenario suggested by Bekenstein cannot provide a generic resolution to the intriguing Hawking information paradox.

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