Horizon wave-function and the quantum cosmic censorship

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.05.053zbMATH Open1369.83062arXiv1503.02858OpenAlexW2962770248MaRDI QIDQ2399008FDOQ2399008

Authors: Roberto Casadio, Octavian Micu, Dejan Stojkovic 

Publication date: 21 August 2017

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the Cosmic Censorship Conjecture by means of the horizon wave-function (HWF) formalism. We consider a charged massive particle whose quantum mechanical state is represented by a spherically symmetric Gaussian wave-function, and restrict our attention to the superxtremal case (with charge-to-mass ratio $alpha>1$), which is the prototype of a naked singularity in the classical theory. We find that one can still obtain a normalisable HWF for $alph{a}^2<2$, and this configuration has a non-vanishing probability of being a black hole, thus extending the classically allowed region for a charged black hole. However, the HWF is not normalisable for $alph{a}^2>2$, and the uncertainty in the location of the horizon blows up at $alph{a}^2=2$, signalling that such an object is no more well-defined. This perhaps implies that a quantum Cosmic Censorhip might be conjectured by stating that no black holes with charge-to-mass ratio greater than a critical value (of the order of $sqrt2$) can exist.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02858

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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