Conformal scalar propagation inside the Schwarzschild black hole

The analytic expression obtained in the preceding project for the massless conformal scalar propagator in the Hartle–Hawking vacuum state for small values of the Schwarzschild radial coordinate above r = 2M is analytically extended into the interior of the Schwarzschild black hole. The result of the analytical extension coincides with the exact propagator for a small range of values of the Schwarzschild radial coordinate below r = 2M and is an analytic expression which manifestly features its dependence on the background space–time geometry. This feature as well as the absence of any assumptions and prerequisites in the derivation render this Hartle–Hawking scalar propagator in the interior of the Schwarzschild black-hole geometry distinct from previous results. The two propagators obtained in the interior and in the exterior region of the Schwarzschild black hole are matched across the event horizon. The result of that match is a massless conformal scalar propagator in the Hartle–Hawking vacuum state which is shown to describe particle production by the Schwarzschild black hole.

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Gravitational energy of a magnetized Schwarzschild black hole: a teleparallel approach

We investigate the distribution of gravitational energy in the spacetime of a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a cosmic magnetic field. This is done in the context of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity, which is an alternative geometrical formulation of general relativity, where gravity is described by a spacetime endowed with torsion rather than curvature, whose fundamental field variables are tetrad fields. We calculate the energy enclosed by a two-surface of constant radius—in particular, the energy enclosed by the event horizon of the black hole. In this case we find that the magnetic field has the effect of increasing the gravitational energy as compared to the vacuum Schwarzschild case. We also compute the energy (i) in the weak magnetic field limit, (ii) in the limit of vanishing magnetic field, and (iii) in the absence of the black hole. In all cases our results are consistent with what should be expected on physical grounds.     

Area invariance of apparent horizons under arbitrary Lorentz boosts

It is a well known analytic result in general relativity that the 2-dimensional area of the apparent horizon of a black hole remains invariant regardless of the motion of the observer, and in fact is independent of the t = constant slice, which can be quite arbitrary in general relativity. Nonetheless the explicit computation of horizon area is often substantially more difficult in some frames (complicated by the coordinate form of the metric), than in other frames. Here we give an explicit demonstration for very restricted metric forms of (Schwarzschild and Kerr) vacuum black holes. In the Kerr–Schild coordinate expression for these spacetimes they have an explicit Lorentz-invariant form. We consider boosted versions with the black hole moving through the coordinate system. Since these are stationary black hole spacetimes, the apparent horizons are two dimensional cross sections of their event horizons, so we compute the areas of apparent horizons in the boosted space with (boosted) t = constant, and obtain the same result as in the unboosted case. Note that while the invariance of area is generic, we deal only with black holes in the Kerr–Schild form, and consider only one particularly simple change of slicing which amounts to a boost. Even with these restrictions we find that the results illuminate the physics of the horizon as a null surface and provide a useful pedagogical tool. As far as we can determine, this is the first explicit calculation of this type demonstrating the area invariance of horizons. Further, these calculations are directly relevant to transformations that arise in computational representation of moving black holes. We present an application of this result to initial data for boosted black holes.     

Geometry and regularity of moving punctures

Significant advances in numerical simulations of black-hole binaries have recently been achieved using the puncture method. We examine how and why this method works by evolving a single black hole. The coordinate singularity and hence the geometry at the puncture are found to change during evolution, from representing an asymptotically flat end to being a cylinder. We construct an analytic solution for the stationary state of a black hole in spherical symmetry that matches the numerical result and demonstrates that the evolution is not dominated by artefacts at the puncture but indeed finds the analytical result.     

Quasi-normal oscillations of a schwarzschild black hole

The modes of oscillation of a Schwarzschild black hole are determined within an analytic framework. These quasi-normal modes are related to the bound states of the inverted black hole potential which is approximated by the inverted Eckart potential. For a given angular momentum parameter j, the real part of the quasi-normal frequency decreases as the mode number n (or, equivalently, the damping factor) increases, in agreement with the results of numerical studies.     

Stress-energy tensor for a massless spin 1/2 field in static black hole spacetimes

The stress-energy tensor for the massless spin 1/2 field is numerically computed outside and on the event horizons of both charged and uncharged static nonrotating black holes, corresponding to the Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstr?m, and extreme Reissner-Nordstr?m solutions of Einstein's equations. The field is assumed to be in a thermal state at the black hole temperature. Comparison is made between the numerical results and previous analytic approximations for the stress-energy tensor in these spacetimes. For the Schwarzschild (charge zero) solution, it is shown that the stress energy differs even in sign from the analytic approximation. For the Reissner-Nordstr?m and extreme Reissner-Nordstr?m solutions, divergences predicted by the analytic approximations are shown not to exist.     

Entropy corrections for Schwarzschild black holes

Recently it is shown that the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy for black holes receives logarithmic corrections due to thermodynamic fluctuations. Schwarzschild black hole which possesses a negative specific heat is thermodynamically unstable, so the entropy corrections cannot be obtained directly. In this Letter, Schwarzschild black hole will be put in the center of a spherical cavity of finite radius to achieve equilibrium with surroundings, so that a thermodynamically stable solution is obtained based on a uniformly spaced area spectrum approach. Our conclusion show that there are two correction terms for Schwarzschild black holes. The sign of the second correction term depends on the size of the cavity.     

静态球对称黑洞热力学与爱因斯坦场方程

建立在广义相对论基础上的黑洞理论与热力学定律之间有着深刻的内在联系.具体考虑球对称黑洞,研究表明通过史瓦西黑洞和Reissner-Nordstrom黑洞在其视界附近的爱因斯坦场方程可以直接得到对应的黑洞热力学第一定律.这揭示了爱因斯坦引力场方程与黑洞热力学的关系,表明了在广义相对论理论框架下黑洞热力学规律的必然性.     

Scattering of particles by deformed non-rotating black holes

We study the excitation of axial quasi-normal modes of deformed non-rotating black holes by test particles and we compare the associated gravitational wave signal with that expected in general relativity from a Schwarzschild black hole. Deviations from standard predictions are quantified by an effective deformation parameter, which takes into account deviations from both the Schwarzschild metric and the Einstein equations. We show that, at least in the case of non-rotating black holes, it is possible to test the metric around the compact object, in the sense that the measurement of the gravitational wave spectrum can constrain possible deviations from the Schwarzschild solution.     

The ringing of quantum corrected Schwarzschild black hole with GUP

Schwarzschild black holes with quantum corrections are studied under scalar field perturbations and electromagnetic field perturbations to analyze the effect of the correction term on the potential function and quasinormal mode (QNM). In classical general relativity, spacetime is continuous and there is no existence of the so-called minimal length. The introduction of the correction items of the generalized uncertainty principle, the parameter β, can change the singularity structure of the black hole gauge and may lead to discretization in time and space. We apply the sixth-order WKB method to approximate the QNM of Schwarzschild black holes with quantum corrections and perform numerical analysis to derive the results of the method. Also, we find that the effective potential and QNM in scalar fields are larger than those in electromagnetic fields.     

Extended bodies with quadrupole moment interacting with gravitational monopoles: reciprocity relations

An exact solution of Einstein’s equations representing the static gravitational field of a quasi-spherical source endowed with both mass and mass quadrupole moment is considered. It belongs to the Weyl class of solutions and reduces to the Schwarzschild solution when the quadrupole moment vanishes. The geometric properties of timelike circular orbits (including geodesics) in this spacetime are investigated. Moreover, a comparison between geodesic motion in the spacetime of a quasi-spherical source and non-geodesic motion of an extended body also endowed with both mass and mass quadrupole moment as described by Dixon’s model in the gravitational field of a Schwarzschild black hole is discussed. Certain “reciprocity relations” between the source and the particle parameters are obtained, providing a further argument in favor of the acceptability of Dixon’s model for extended bodies in general relativity.     

整体正规Schwarzschild黑洞的最大和完备的解析延拓

本文给出了整体正规Schwarzschild黑洞在Kruskal坐标变换中的最大和完备的解析延拓,讨论了零超曲面上的连接条件,比较了奇性和非奇性Schwarzschild黑洞的渐近时空结构。结果表明,可以存在非奇性的稳定的黑洞。 关键词：     

Rotating dirty black hole and its shadow

In this paper, we examine the effect of dark matter to a Kerr black hole of mass m. The metric is derived using the Newman-Janis algorithm, where the seed metric originates from the Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by a spherical shell of dark matter with mass M and thickness Δr_s. The seed metric is also described in terms of a piecewise mass function with three different conditions. Specializing in the non-trivial case where the observer resides inside the dark matter shell, we analyzed how the effective mass of the black hole environment affects the basic black hole properties. A high concentration of dark matter near the rotating black hole is needed to have considerable deviations on the horizons, ergosphere, and photonsphere radius. The time-like geodesic, however, shows more sensitivity to deviation even at very low dark matter density. Further, the location of energy extraction via the Penrose process is also shown to remain unchanged. With how the dark matter distribution is described in the mass function, and the complexity of how the shadow radius is defined for a Kerr black hole, deriving an analytic expression for Δr_s as a condition for notable dark matter effects to occur remains inconvenient.     

Absorption of massive scalar field by a charged black hole

Absorption and reflection of charged, massive scalar field by the Reisner-Nordstrom black hole are investigated through a numerical computation. The absorption is suppressed when (Schwarzschild radius) < (Compton wave length) and the amplification of the wave occurs when the level crossing condition is satisfied.     

Regularizing tunnelling calculations of Hawking temperature

Attempts to understand Hawking radiation as tunnelling across a black hole horizon require the consideration of singular integrals. Although Schwarzschild coordinates lead to the standard Hawking temperature, isotropic radial coordinates may appear to produce an incorrect value. It is demonstrated here how the proper regularization of singular integrals leads to the standard temperature for the isotropic radial coordinates as well as for other smooth transformations of the radial variable, which of course describe the same black hole.     

Analytic observation of a star orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole

A star orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole can be used as a toy model for an educational study of the relativistic effects like bending of light, geodesic precession, and frequency shift. Additionally, the finiteness of the speed of light plays a crucial role for the visual appearance of the star. We will develop an analytic method to show the difference between the actual and the apparent position of the star depending on the observation time and the observer’s inclination to the orbital plane.     

Nonsingular black hole

We consider the Schwarzschild black hole and show how, in a theory with limiting curvature, the physical singularity “inside it” is removed. The resulting spacetime is geodesically complete. The internal structure of this nonsingular black hole is analogous to Russian nesting dolls. Namely, after falling into the black hole of radius \(r_{g}\), an observer, instead of being destroyed at the singularity, gets for a short time into the region with limiting curvature. After that he re-emerges in the near horizon region of a spacetime described by the Schwarzschild metric of a gravitational radius proportional to \(r_{g}^{1/3}\). In the next cycle, after passing the limiting curvature, the observer finds himself within a black hole of even smaller radius proportional to \(r_{g}^{1/9}\), and so on. Finally after a few cycles he will end up in the spacetime where he remains forever at limiting curvature.     

Physical interpretation of the spectrum of black hole quasinormal modes

When a classical black hole is perturbed, its relaxation is governed by a set of quasinormal modes with complex frequencies omega=omega R +i omega I. We show that this behavior is the same as that of damped harmonic oscillators whose real frequencies are (omega R2+omega I 2)1/2, rather than simply omega R. Since, for highly excited modes, omega I>omega R, this observation changes drastically the physical understanding of the black hole spectrum and forces a reexamination of various results in the literature. In particular, adapting a derivation by Hod, we find that the area of the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole is quantized in units Delta A=8pi l Pl2, in contrast with the original result Delta A=4log(3)l Pl2.     

Resonant scattering of light in a near-black-hole metric

We show that low-energy photon scattering from a body with radius R slightly larger than its Schwarzschild radius r _s resembles black-hole absorption. This absorption occurs via capture resulting in one of the many long-lived, densely packed resonances that populate the continuum. The lifetimes and density of these meta-stable states tend to infinity in the limit r _s →R. We determine the energy-averaged cross section for particle capture into these resonances and show that it is equal to the absorption cross section for a Schwarzschild black hole. Thus a non-singular static metric may trap photons for arbitrarily long times, making it appear completely ‘black’ before the actual formation of a black hole.     

Interior of a Schwarzschild Black Hole Revisited

The Schwarzschild solution has played a fundamental conceptual role in general relativity, and beyond, for instance, regarding event horizons, spacetime singularities and aspects of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes. However, one still encounters the existence of misconceptions and a certain ambiguity inherent in the Schwarzschild solution in the literature. By taking into account the point of view of an observer in the interior of the event horizon, one verifies that new conceptual difficulties arise. In this work, besides providing a very brief pedagogical review, we further analyze the interior Schwarzschild black hole solution. Firstly, by deducing the interior metric by considering time-dependent metric coefficients, the interior region is analyzed without the prejudices inherited from the exterior geometry. We also pay close attention to several respective cosmological interpretations, and briefly address some of the difficulties associated to spacetime singularities. Secondly, we deduce the conserved quantities of null and timelike geodesics, and discuss several particular cases in some detail. Thirdly, we examine the Eddington–Finkelstein and Kruskal coordinates directly from the interior solution. In concluding, it is important to emphasize that the interior structure of realistic black holes has not been satisfactorily determined, and is still open to considerable debate.