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| author | Bianchi, Eugenio Brandsema, Matthew Czuprynski, Kenneth Paraizo, Daniel E. |
| author_facet | Bianchi, Eugenio Brandsema, Matthew Czuprynski, Kenneth Paraizo, Daniel E. |
| contents | We derive bounds on the lifetime of an evaporating black hole. The bound follows from energy conservation and purification, within the framework of `asymptotically semiclassical spacetimes'. We use the recently derived expression for the Bondi flux of Hawking radiation, together with the expression for the entanglement entropy of Hawking radiation at null infinity, to investigate the purification phase after the last semiclassical ray. We discuss the energy-cost of entanglement purification and we find a lower bound on the purification time of the black hole, which scales as $M_0^4/\hbar^{3/2}$, where $M_0$ is the initial black hole mass. Additionally, motivated by quantum gravity considerations, we include the additional assumption that a Planck mass black hole is metastable. With this assumption, we find that the the purification time is extended to be exponential in the square of the initial black hole mass, i.e. in its initial area. We find that the redshift exponent is negative in this purification phase, which indicates the existence of a white-hole remnant which releases information slowly. We comment on phenomenological implications for primordial black hole remnants. |
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| spellingShingle | Minimum lifetime of a black hole Bianchi, Eugenio Brandsema, Matthew Czuprynski, Kenneth Paraizo, Daniel E. General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory We derive bounds on the lifetime of an evaporating black hole. The bound follows from energy conservation and purification, within the framework of `asymptotically semiclassical spacetimes'. We use the recently derived expression for the Bondi flux of Hawking radiation, together with the expression for the entanglement entropy of Hawking radiation at null infinity, to investigate the purification phase after the last semiclassical ray. We discuss the energy-cost of entanglement purification and we find a lower bound on the purification time of the black hole, which scales as $M_0^4/\hbar^{3/2}$, where $M_0$ is the initial black hole mass. Additionally, motivated by quantum gravity considerations, we include the additional assumption that a Planck mass black hole is metastable. With this assumption, we find that the the purification time is extended to be exponential in the square of the initial black hole mass, i.e. in its initial area. We find that the redshift exponent is negative in this purification phase, which indicates the existence of a white-hole remnant which releases information slowly. We comment on phenomenological implications for primordial black hole remnants. |
| title | Minimum lifetime of a black hole |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03922 |