Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1996-06-18
Phys.Rev.D54:6312-6322,1996
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
29 pages, LaTeX, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. D; minor typos corrected, missing minus sign in Eq. (3.11) inserted
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.54.6312
Black holes came into existence together with the universe through the quantum process of pair creation in the inflationary era. We present the instantons responsible for this process and calculate the pair creation rate from the no boundary proposal for the wave function of the universe. We find that this proposal leads to physically sensible results, which fit in with other descriptions of pair creation, while the tunnelling proposal makes unphysical predictions. We then describe how the pair created black holes evolve during inflation. In the classical solution, they grow with the horizon scale during the slow roll-down of the inflaton field; this is shown to correspond to the flux of field energy across the horizon according to the First Law of black hole mechanics. When quantum effects are taken into account, however, it is found that most black holes evaporate before the end of inflation. Finally, we consider the pair creation of magnetically charged black holes, which cannot evaporate. In standard Einstein-Maxwell theory we find that their number in the presently observable universe is exponentially small. We speculate how this conclusion may change if dilatonic theories are applied.
Bousso Raphael
Hawking Stephen W.
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