Unitarity alternatives in the reduced-action model for gravitational collapse

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2011)044zbMATH Open1301.83010arXiv1106.5628MaRDI QIDQ480575FDOQ480575

Authors: D. Colferai, Marcello Ciafaloni, Giulio Falcioni 

Publication date: 8 December 2014

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

Abstract: Based on the ACV approach to transplanckian energies, the reduced-action model for the gravitational S-matrix predicts a critical impact parameter b_c ~ R = 2 G sqrt{s} such that S-matrix unitarity is satisfied in the perturbative region b > b_c, while it is exponentially suppressed with respect to s in the region b < b_c that we think corresponds to gravitational collapse. Here we definitely confirm this statement by a detailed analysis of both the critical region b ~ b_c and of further possible contributions due to quantum transitions for b < b_c. We point out, however, that the subcritical unitarity suppression is basically due to the boundary condition which insures that the solutions of the model be ultraviolet-safe. As an alternative, relaxing such condition leads to solutions which carry short-distance singularities presumably regularized by the string. We suggest that through such solutions - depending on the detailed dynamics at the string scale - the lost probability may be recovered.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5628

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesmodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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