\textit{Annihilation-to-nothing}: a quantum gravitational boundary condition for the Schwarzschild black hole

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2020/11/002zbMATH Open1485.83065arXiv1911.02129OpenAlexW2982919363MaRDI QIDQ5035264FDOQ5035264

Authors: Mariam Bouhmadi-López, Suddhasattwa Brahma, Che-Yu Chen, Pisin Chen, Dong-Han Yeom 

Publication date: 21 February 2022

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The interior of a static Schwarzschild metric can be written in terms of two functions, similar to some models of anisotropic cosmology. With a suitable choice of canonical variables, we solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation (WDW) inside the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole. By imposing classicality near the horizon, and requiring boundedness of the wave function, we get a rather generic solution of the WDW equation, whose steepest-descent solution, i.e., the ridge of the wave function, coincides nicely with the classical trajectory. However, there is an ambiguity in defining the arrow of time which leads to two possible interpretations - (i) if there is only one arrow of time, one can infer that the steepest-descent of the wave function follows the classical trajectory throughout: coming from the event horizon and going all the way down to the singularity, while (ii) if there are two different arrows of time in two separate regimes, it can be inferred that the steepest-descent of the wave function comes inwards from the event horizon in one region while it moves outwards from the singularity in the other region, and there exists an annihilation process of these two parts of the wave function inside the horizon. Adopting the second interpretation could shed light on the information loss paradox: as time goes on, probabilities for histories that include black holes and singularities decay to zero and eventually only trivial geometries dominate.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02129

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum cosmologyquantum black holesGR black holes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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