Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2004-07-23
Phys.Lett. B601 (2004) 184-191
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Submitted to Physics Letters B, Friday 23rd July 2004
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2004.09.004
We study the quantum-mechanical decay of a Schwarzschild-like black hole into almost-flat space and weak radiation at a very late time, evaluating quantum amplitudes (not just probabilities) for transitions from initial to final states. No information is lost. The model contains gravity and a massless scalar field. The quantum amplitude to go from given initial to final bosonic data in a slightly complexified time-interval $T={\tau}{\exp}(-i{\theta})$ at infinity is approximately $\exp(-I)$, where $I$ is the (complex) Euclidean action of the classical solution filling in between the boundary data. And in a locally supersymmetric (supergravity) theory, the amplitude const. exp(-I) is exact. Dirichlet boundary data for gravity and the scalar field are posed on an initial spacelike hypersurface extending to spatial infinity, just prior to collapse, and on a corresponding final spacelike surface, sufficiently far to the future of the initial surface to catch all the Hawking radiation. In an averaged sense this radiation has an approximately spherically-symmetric distribution. If the time-interval $T$ were exactly real, the resulting `hyperbolic Dirichlet boundary-value problem' would not be well posed. If instead (`Euclidean strategy'), one takes $T$ complex, as above ($0<\theta{\leq}{\pi}/2$), the field equations become strongly elliptic, with a unique solution to the classical boundary-value problem. Expanding the bosonic part of the action to quadratic order in perturbations about the classical solution gives the quantum amplitude for weak-field final configurations, up to normalization. Such amplitudes are calculated for weak final scalar fields.
D'Eath Peter D.
Farley Andrew N. S. J.
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