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| author | Christodoulou, Marios D'Ambrosio, Fabio |
| author_facet | Christodoulou, Marios D'Ambrosio, Fabio |
| contents | Quantum fluctuations of the metric provide a decay mechanism for black holes, through a transition to a white hole geometry. Old perplexing results by Ambrus and Hájíček and more recent results by Barceló, Carballo-Rubio and Garay, indicate a characteristic time scale of this process that scales linearly with the mass of the collapsed object. We compute the characteristic time scales involved in the quantum process using Lorentzian Loop Quantum Gravity amplitudes, corroborating these results but reinterpreting and clarifying their physical meaning. We first review and streamline the classical set up, and distinguish and discuss the different time scales involved. We conclude that the aforementioned results concern a time scale that is different from the lifetime, the latter being the much longer time related to the probability of the process to take place. We recover the exponential scaling of the lifetime in the mass, a result expected from naïve semiclassical arguments for the probability of a tunneling phenomenon to occur. |
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| spellingShingle | Characteristic Time Scales for the Geometry Transition of a Black Hole to a White Hole from Spinfoams Christodoulou, Marios D'Ambrosio, Fabio General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum fluctuations of the metric provide a decay mechanism for black holes, through a transition to a white hole geometry. Old perplexing results by Ambrus and Hájíček and more recent results by Barceló, Carballo-Rubio and Garay, indicate a characteristic time scale of this process that scales linearly with the mass of the collapsed object. We compute the characteristic time scales involved in the quantum process using Lorentzian Loop Quantum Gravity amplitudes, corroborating these results but reinterpreting and clarifying their physical meaning. We first review and streamline the classical set up, and distinguish and discuss the different time scales involved. We conclude that the aforementioned results concern a time scale that is different from the lifetime, the latter being the much longer time related to the probability of the process to take place. We recover the exponential scaling of the lifetime in the mass, a result expected from naïve semiclassical arguments for the probability of a tunneling phenomenon to occur. |
| title | Characteristic Time Scales for the Geometry Transition of a Black Hole to a White Hole from Spinfoams |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03027 |