Quantum effects of the conformal anomaly in a 2D model of gravitational collapse

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2023)223MaRDI QIDQ6074286zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Emil Mottola, Mani Chandra, Gian Mario Manca, Evgeny Sorkin

Publication date 12 October 2023

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15397

zbMATH Keywords

2D gravityblack holes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum theory (81-XX)

Abstract: The macroscopic effects of the quantum conformal anomaly are evaluated in a simplified two-dimensional model of gravitational collapse. The effective action and stress tensor of the anomaly can be expressed in a local quadratic form by the introduction of a scalar conformalon field which satisfies a linear wave equation. A wide class of non-vacuum initial state conditions is generated by different solutions of this equation. An interesting subclass of solutions corresponds to initial states that give rise to an arbitrarily large semi-classical stress tensor on the future horizon of the black hole formed in classical collapse. These lead to modification and suppression of Hawking radiation at late times after the collapse, and potentially large backreaction effects on the horizon scale due to the conformal anomaly. The probability of non-vacuum initial conditions large enough to produce these effects is estimated from the Gaussian vacuum wave functional in the Schrodinger representation and shown to be of order 1. These results indicate that quantum effects of the conformal anomaly in non-vacuum states are relevant for gravitational collapse in the effective theory of gravity in four dimensions as well.

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