Physics with nonperturbative quantum gravity: Radiation from a quantum black hole

DOI10.1007/BF02109521zbMATH Open0875.83060arXivgr-qc/9603064MaRDI QIDQ674846FDOQ674846

Authors: Marcelo Barreira, Mauro Carfora, Carlo Rovelli 

Publication date: 24 April 1997

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study quantum gravitational effects on black hole radiation, using loop quantum gravity. Bekenstein and Mukhanov have recently considered the modifications caused by quantum gravity on Hawking's thermal black-hole radiation. Using a simple ansatz for the eigenstates the area, they have obtained the intriguing result that the quantum properties of geometry affect the radiation considerably, yielding a definitely non-thermal spectrum. Here, we replace the simple ansatz employed by Bekenstein and Mukhanov with the actual eigenstates of the area, computed using the loop representation of quantum gravity. We derive the emission spectra, using a classic result in number theory by Hardy and Ramanujan. Disappointingly, we do not recover the Bekenstein-Mukhanov spectrum, but --effectively-- a Hawking's thermal spectrum. The Bekenstein-Mukhanov result is therefore likely to be an artefact of the naive ansatz, rather than a robust result. The result is an example of concrete (although somewhat disappointing) application of nonperturbative quantum gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9603064

zbMATH Keywords

Hawking radiationloop quantum gravityarea eigenstatesemission spectra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Black holes (83C57)

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• An improved thin film model of the Schwarzschild black hole entropy
• Discrete quantum spectrum of black holes
• Spectroscopy of a canonically quantized horizon
• BLACK HOLE AREA QUANTIZATION
• Isolated and dynamical horizons and their applications
• On the distribution of the eigenvalues of the area operator in loop quantum gravity
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• Black Hole Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
• Loop quantum gravity

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