Evolution of Black Holes in Anti-de Sitter Spacetime and the Firewall Controversy / by Yen Chin Ong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ong, Yen Chin., Author.

Series:

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, 2190-5053

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gravitation.

Astrophysics.

Quantum field theory.

String models.

Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

Local Subjects:

Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This thesis focuses on the recent firewall controversy surrounding evaporating black holes, and shows that in the best understood example concerning electrically charged black holes with a flat event horizon in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime, the firewall does not arise. The firewall, which surrounds a sufficiently old black hole, threatens to develop into a huge crisis since it could occur even when spacetime curvature is small, which contradicts general relativity. However, the end state for asymptotically flat black holes is ill-understood since their curvature becomes unbounded. This issue is avoided by working with flat charged black holes in AdS. The presence of electrical charge is crucial since black holes inevitably pick up charges throughout their long lifetime. These black holes always evolve toward extremal limit, and are then destroyed by quantum gravitational effects. This happens sooner than the time required to decode Hawking radiation so that the firewall never sets in, as conjectured by Harlow and Hayden. Motivated by the information loss paradox, the author also investigates the possibility that “monster” configurations might exist, with an arbitrarily large interior bounded by a finite surface area. Investigating such an object in AdS shows that in the best understood case, such an object -- much like a firewall -- cannot exist.

Contents:

A Century of Black Hole Physics

The Mathematical Discovery of Black Holes

The Thermodynamics of Black Holes

Positive Mass Theorem, Stability & Phase Transition

Defining Mass in General Relativity

Positive Mass and Stability

The Euclidean Action

Hiscock and Weems Analysis of Charged Black Holes

Reissner-Nordström Black Hole Revisited

The Hiscock and Weems Model

Why Hawking Radiation Cannot Be Decoded

Information Decoding vs. the Lifetimes of Charged Black Holes

Evaporating Charged AdS Black Holes

Do Hyper-Entropic Objects Exist in Quantum Gravity?

A Monster is Born

Monsters in String Theory.

Notes:

"Doctoral Thesis accepted by National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan."

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

ISBN:

3-662-48270-3