Infrared effects in the late stages of black hole evaporation

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2021)137zbMATH Open1468.83021arXiv2102.13629OpenAlexW3185475904MaRDI QIDQ1981507FDOQ1981507

Éanna É. Flanagan

Publication date: 3 September 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: As a black hole evaporates, each outgoing Hawking quantum carries away some of the black holes asymptotic charges associated with the extended Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group. These include the Poincar'e charges of energy, linear momentum, intrinsic angular momentum, and orbital angular momentum or center-of-mass charge, as well as extensions of these quantities associated with supertranslations and super-Lorentz transformations, namely supermomentum, superspin and super center-of-mass charges (also known as soft hair). Since each emitted quantum has fluctuations that are of order unity, fluctuations in the black hole's charges grow over the course of the evaporation. We estimate the scale of these fluctuations using a simple model. The results are, in Planck units: (i) The black hole position has a uncertainty of $sim{M}_i^2$ at late times, where $M_i$ is the initial mass (previously found by Page). (ii) The black hole mass $M$ has an uncertainty of order the mass $M$ itself at the epoch when $Msim{M}_i^{2/3}$, well before the Planck scale is reached. Correspondingly, the time at which the evaporation ends has an uncertainty of order $sim{M}_i^2$. (iii) The supermomentum and superspin charges are not independent but are determined from the Poincare charges and the super center-of-mass charges. (iv) The supertranslation that characterizes the super center-of-mass charges has fluctuations at multipole orders $l$ of order unity that that are of order unity in Planck units. At large $l$, there is a power law spectrum of fluctuations that extends up to $lsim{M}_i^2/M$, beyond which the fluctuations fall off exponentially, with corresponding total rms shear tensor fluctuations $sim{M}_i{M}^{-3/2}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.13629

zbMATH Keywords

black holesmodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Black holes (83C57)

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