Quantum Field Theory of Black Hole Perturbations with Backreaction VI. Apparent Horizons, Quasi-Local Mass and Effective Classical Metrics

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Thiemann, Thomas
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Thiemann, Thomas
contents In a recent series of papers we developed a first-principle and gauge invariant approach to black hole perturbation theory valid to any order. We included back reaction effects to tackle the situation of evaporating black holes and obtained an explicit expression for the dynamics of the reduced phase space to second order. The physics of evaporating black holes is in particular encoded by apparent horizons, an observer dependent generalisation of the event horizon. We determine the shape of the apparent horizon to second order in the perturbations. The area of the apparent horizon is an interesting observable which is expected to decrease in the quantum theory due to Hawking evaporation. We show how the full four dimensional metric can be reconstructed in terms of the reduced phase space variables. In the quantum theory, taking expectation values of this metric, we obtain an effective classical metric, whose causal structure can then be visualised in a quantum corrected Penrose diagram. We conclude with an outlook into the quantisation procedure in the reduced phase space formalism and the implications on the area of the apparent horizon.
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spellingShingle Quantum Field Theory of Black Hole Perturbations with Backreaction VI. Apparent Horizons, Quasi-Local Mass and Effective Classical Metrics
Neuser, Jonas
Thiemann, Thomas
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
In a recent series of papers we developed a first-principle and gauge invariant approach to black hole perturbation theory valid to any order. We included back reaction effects to tackle the situation of evaporating black holes and obtained an explicit expression for the dynamics of the reduced phase space to second order. The physics of evaporating black holes is in particular encoded by apparent horizons, an observer dependent generalisation of the event horizon. We determine the shape of the apparent horizon to second order in the perturbations. The area of the apparent horizon is an interesting observable which is expected to decrease in the quantum theory due to Hawking evaporation. We show how the full four dimensional metric can be reconstructed in terms of the reduced phase space variables. In the quantum theory, taking expectation values of this metric, we obtain an effective classical metric, whose causal structure can then be visualised in a quantum corrected Penrose diagram. We conclude with an outlook into the quantisation procedure in the reduced phase space formalism and the implications on the area of the apparent horizon.
title Quantum Field Theory of Black Hole Perturbations with Backreaction VI. Apparent Horizons, Quasi-Local Mass and Effective Classical Metrics
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13714