Overview
- Presents the first investigation on the crucial role of electrical charge in black hole evolution under Hawking evaporation, in the context of the information loss problem and the firewall paradox
- Provides insights into some of the unexpected features of black holes with flat event horizons in AdS
- Nominated for the Outstanding Thesis Dean’s Award by the College of Science in National Taiwan University
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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This thesis focuses on the recent firewall controversy surrounding evaporating black holes, and shows that in the best understood example concerning electrically charged black holes with a flat event horizon in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime, the firewall does not arise.
The firewall, which surrounds a sufficiently old black hole, threatens to develop into a huge crisis since it could occur even when spacetime curvature is small, which contradicts general relativity.
However, the end state for asymptotically flat black holes is ill-understood since their curvature becomes unbounded. This issue is avoided by working with flat charged black holes in AdS. The presence of electrical charge is crucial since black holes inevitably pick up charges throughout their long lifetime. These black holes always evolve toward extremal limit, and are then destroyed by quantum gravitational effects. This happens sooner than the time required to decode Hawking radiation so that the firewall never sets in, as conjectured by Harlow and Hayden.
Motivated by the information loss paradox, the author also investigates the possibility that “monster” configurations might exist, with an arbitrarily large interior bounded by a finite surface area. Investigating such an object in AdS shows that in the best understood case, such an object -- much like a firewall -- cannot exist.
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Book Title: Evolution of Black Holes in Anti-de Sitter Spacetime and the Firewall Controversy
Authors: Yen Chin Ong
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48270-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-48269-8Published: 08 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-56915-3Published: 28 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-48270-4Published: 27 November 2015
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 222
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory