Beyond the Semiclassical Description of Black Hole Evaporation

In the semiclassical treatment, i.e. in a classical black hole geometry, Hawking quanta emerge from trans-Planckian configurations because of scale invariance. There is indeed no scale to stop the blueshift effect encountered in the backward propagation toward the event horizon. On the contrary, when taking into account the gravitational interactions neglected in the semiclassical treatment, a new UV scale could be dynamically engendered and could stop the focusing. To show that this is the case, we use the large-N limit, where N is the number of matter fields. In this limit, the semiclassical treatment is the leading contribution. Nonlinear gravitational effects appear in the next orders and in the first of these, the effects are governed by the two-point correlation function of the energy–momentum tensor evaluated in the vacuum. In this case they can also be obtained by considering light propagation in a stochastic ensemble of metrics whose mean fluctuating properties are determined by this two-point function.     

Black Hole Evaporation Entails an Objective Passage of Time

Time's apparent passage has long been debated by philosophers, with no decisive argument for or against its objective existence. In this paper we show that introducing the issue of determinism gives the debate a new, empirical twist. We prove that any theory that states that the basic laws of physics are time-symmetric must be strictly deterministic. It is only determinism that enables time reversal, whether theoretical or experimental, of any entropy-increasing process. A contradiction therefore arises between Hawking's [1] argument that physical law is time-symmetric and his controversial claim [2] that black-hole evaporation introduces a fundamental unpredictability into the physical world. The latter claim forcibly entails an intrinsic time-arrow independent of boundary conditions. A simulation of a simple system under time reversal shows how an intrinsic time arrow re-emerges, destroying the time reversal, when even the slightest failure of determinism occurs. This proof is then extended to the classical behavior of black holes. We conclude with pointing out the affinity between time's arrow and its apparent passage.     

Quantum Black Hole

Creation of a black hole in quantum cosmology is the third way of black hole formation. In contrast to the gravitational collapse from a massive body in astrophysics or from the quantum fluctuation of matter fields in the very early universe, in the quantum cosmology scenario the black hole is essentially created from nothing. The black hole originates from a constrained gravitational instanton. The probability of creation for all kinds of single black holes in the Kerr-Newman family, at the semiclassical level, is the exponential of the total entropy of the universe, or one quarter of the sum of both the black hole and the cosmological horizon areas. The de Sitter spacetime is the most probable evolution at the Planckian era.     

BTZ Black Hole in Non-Commutative Spaces

In this letter we compute the corrections to the horizons, the horizon area and Hawking temperature of a BTZ black hole. These corrections stem from the space non-commutativity. We show that in non-commutative case, non-rotating BTZ black hole in contrast with commutative case has two horizons.     

Black Hole Hair in Higher Dimensions

We study the property of matter in equilibrium with a static, spherically symmetric black hole in D- dimensional spacetime. It requires that this kind of matter has an equation of state ω≡pr/ρ = -n/（n ＋ 2k）, k, n ∈ N （where n 〉 1 corresponds to a mixture of vacuum matter and ＂hair＂ matter）, which seems to be independent of D. However, when we associate this result with specific models, we find that these hairy black holes can live only in some special dimensional spacetime： （i） D = 2 ＋ 2k/n while the black hole is surrounded by cosmic strings, which requires D is even or D ∈ N, depending on the value of n, this is consistent with some important results in superstring theory, it might reveal the relation between cosmic string and superstring in another aspect; （ii） the black hole can be surrounded by linear dilaton field only in 4-dimensional spacetime. In both cases, D = 4 is special. We also present some examples of such hairy black holes in higher dimensions, including a toy model with negative energy density.     

Kerr-Newman-Kasuya Black Hole Tunnelling Radiation

The radiation of black hole contributes to the shrinking of the event horizon such that the background spacetime should not be fixed. In this study we take into account the self-gravitation effect to study the radiation of Kerr Newman-Kasuya black hole as tunnelling. Using the facts of energy conservation and angular momentum conservation we derive the tunnelling rate and show that the spectrum of the radiation as tunnelling is not purely thermal.     

A New Regular Black Hole

A spherically symmetric uncharged regular black hole is proposed in this paper. The black hole’s density in proportion to $r^{3n}e^{-r^{3n+3}}$ , and the curvature tensor in the region of r=0 keep finity. When n=0 in our model, this spacetime is no other than Dymnikova regular black hole. What’s more, there are better properties in this spacetime when n>0. We then discuss the temperature and Hawking radiation of the black hole’s horizon.     

Entropy of Dilatonic Black Hole

By using the method of quantum statistics, we directly derive the partition function of bosonic and fermionic field in dilatonic black hole and obtain the integral expression of the black hole's entropy, which avoids the difficulty in solving the wave equationof various particles. Then via the improved brick-wall method, membrane model, we obtain that we can choose proper parameter in order to let the thickness of film tend to zero and have it approach the surface of its horizon. Consequently the entropy of the black hole is proportional to the area of its horizon. In our result, the stripped term and the divergent logarithmic term in the original brick-wall method no longer exist. In the whole process, physics idea is clear; calculation is simple. We offer a new simple and direct way of calculating the entropy of different complicated black holes.     

Braneworld Black Hole Gravitational Lensing

A class of braneworld black holes, which I called as Bronnikov–Melnikov–Dehen(BMD) black holes,are studied as gravitational lenses. I obtain the deflection angle in the strong deflection limit, and further calculate the angular positions and magnifications of relativistic images as well as the time delay between different relativistic images. I also compare the results with those obtained for Schwarzschild and two braneworld black holes, i.e., the tidal Reissner-Nordstr¨om(R-N) and the Casadio–Fabbri–Mazzacurati(CFM) black holes.     

Geometry of Black Hole Thermodynamics

The Hessian of the entropy function can be thought of as a metric tensor on the state space. In the context of thermodynamical fluctuation theory Ruppeiner has argued that the Riemannian geometry of this metric gives insight into the underlying statistical mechanical system; the claim is supported by numerous examples. We study this geometry for some families of black holes. It is flat for the BTZ and Reissner–Nordström black holes, while curvature singularities occur for the Reissner–Nordström–anti–de Sitter and Kerr black holes.     

Topology in Entropy of Schwarzschild Black Hole

In the light of -mapping method and the relationship between the entropy and the Euler characteristic, the inner topological structure of the entropy of Schwarzschild black hole is studied. By introducing an entropy density, it is shown that the entropy of Schwarzschild black hole is determined by the singularities of the timelike Killing vector field of spacetime and these singularities carry the topological numbers, Hopf indices and Brouwer degrees, naturally. Taking account of the statistical meaning of entropy in physics, the entropy of Schwarzschild black hole is merely the sum of the Hopf indices, which will give the increasing law of entropy of black holes.     

Flat Information Geometries in Black Hole Thermodynamics

The Hessian of either the entropy or the energy function can be regarded as a metric on a Gibbs surface. For two parameter families of asymptotically flat black holes in arbitrary dimension one or the other of these metrics are flat, and the state space is a flat wedge. The mathematical reason for this is traced back to the scale invariance of the Einstein–Maxwell equations. The picture of state space that we obtain makes some properties such as the occurence of divergent specific heats transparent.Supported by VR.     

Effective Potential in Noncommutative BTZ Black Hole

In this paper, we investigated the noncommutative rotating BTZ black hole and showed that such a space-time is not maximally symmetric. We calculated effective potential for the massive and the massless test particle by geodesic equations, also we showed effect of non-commutativity on the minimum mass of BTZ black hole.     

Black Hole Phase Transition in Massive Gravity

In massive gravity, some new phenomena of black hole phase transition are found. There are more than one critical points under appropriate parameter values and the Gibbs free energy near critical points also has some new properties. Moreover, the Maxwell equal area rule is also investigated and the coexistence curve of the black hole is given.