scholarly journals Long-Range Quantum Gravity

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1396
Author(s):  
Mariano Cadoni ◽  
Matteo Tuveri ◽  
Andrea P. Sanna
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Equivalence Principle ◽  
Quantum Criticality ◽  
Black Hole Thermodynamics ◽  
Gravitational Effects ◽  
Einstein's Equivalence Principle

It is a tantalising possibility that quantum gravity (QG) states remaining coherent at astrophysical, galactic and cosmological scales could exist and that they could play a crucial role in understanding macroscopic gravitational effects. We explore, using only general principles of General Relativity, quantum and statistical mechanics, the possibility of using long-range QG states to describe black holes. In particular, we discuss in a critical way the interplay between various aspects of long-range quantum gravity, such as the holographic bound, classical and quantum criticality and the recently proposed quantum thermal generalisation of Einstein’s equivalence principle. We also show how black hole thermodynamics can be easily explained in this framework.

scholarly journals Quantum gravity: A brief history of ideas and some prospects

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 1530028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Carlip ◽  
Dah-Wei Chiou ◽  
Wei-Tou Ni ◽  
Richard Woodard
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Loop Quantum Gravity ◽  
Black Hole Thermodynamics ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Gravitational Effects ◽  
History Of

We present a bird's-eye survey on the development of fundamental ideas of quantum gravity, placing emphasis on perturbative approaches, string theory, loop quantum gravity (LQG) and black hole thermodynamics. The early ideas at the dawn of quantum gravity as well as the possible observations of quantum gravitational effects in the foreseeable future are also briefly discussed.

Black hole fusion made easy

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 1644015
Author(s):  
Roberto Emparan ◽  
Marina Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Event Horizon ◽  
Critical Behavior ◽  
Equivalence Principle ◽  
The Other ◽  
Schwarzschild Solution ◽  
Null Geodesics ◽  
Light Rays

The fusion of two black holes — a signature phenomenon of General Relativity — is usually regarded as a process so complex that nothing short of a supercomputer simulation can accurately capture it. In this essay, we explain how the event horizon of the merger can be found in an exact analytic way in the limit where one of the black holes is much smaller than the other. Remarkably, the ideas and techniques involved are elementary: the equivalence principle, null geodesics in the Schwarzschild solution, and the notion of event horizon itself. With these, one can identify features such as the line of caustics at which light rays enter the horizon, and find indications of universal critical behavior when the two black holes touch.

scholarly journals A Second Law for higher curvature gravity

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 1544014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aron C. Wall
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Black Hole Thermodynamics ◽  
Gravity Theory ◽  
Second Law ◽  
Holographic Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Higher Curvature Gravity ◽  
Complete Quantum

The Second Law of black hole thermodynamics is shown to hold for arbitrarily complicated theories of higher curvature gravity, so long as we allow only linearized perturbations to stationary black holes. Some ambiguities in Wald’s Noether charge method are resolved. The increasing quantity turns out to be the same as the holographic entanglement entropy calculated by Dong. It is suggested that only the linearization of the higher curvature Second Law is important, when consistently truncating a UV-complete quantum gravity theory.

scholarly journals BLACK HOLES AND STRINGS: THE POLYMER LINK

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 1407-1411 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAMZI R. KHURI
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Soft Matter ◽  
Black Hole Entropy ◽  
Entropy Formula ◽  
Recent Success ◽  
Thermodynamics And Statistical Mechanics

Quantum aspects of black holes represent an important testing ground for a theory of quantum gravity. The recent success of string theory in reproducing the Bekenstein–Hawking black hole entropy formula provides a link between general relativity and quantum mechanics via thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Here we speculate on the existence of new and unexpected links between black holes and polymers and other soft-matter systems.

scholarly journals Black hole thermodynamics

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 1430023 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Carlip
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Black Hole Thermodynamics ◽  
Information Loss Paradox ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Statistical Mechanical ◽  
The Many

The discovery in the early 1970s that black holes radiate as black bodies has radically affected our understanding of general relativity, and offered us some early hints about the nature of quantum gravity. In this paper, will review the discovery of black hole thermodynamics and summarize the many independent ways of obtaining the thermodynamic and (perhaps) statistical mechanical properties of black holes. I will then describe some of the remaining puzzles, including the nature of the quantum microstates, the problem of universality, and the information loss paradox.

scholarly journals BLACK HOLES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (13n14) ◽  
pp. 2359-2366 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEX B. NIELSEN
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Hawking Radiation ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Black Hole Thermodynamics ◽  
Event Horizons ◽  
Central Singularity ◽  
Trapping Horizon ◽  
Trapping Horizons

We discuss some of the drawbacks of using event horizons to define black holes and suggest ways in which black holes can be described without event horizons, using trapping horizons. We show that these trapping horizons give rise to thermodynamic behavior and possibly Hawking radiation too. This raises the issue of whether the event horizon or the trapping horizon should be seen as the true boundary of a black hole. This difference is important if we believe that quantum gravity will resolve the central singularity of the black hole and clarifies several of the issues associated with black hole thermodynamics and information loss.

scholarly journals BLACK HOLES REMNANTS IN EXTRA DIMENSIONS AND DARK MATTER

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (23n24) ◽  
pp. 4979-4992 ◽  
Author(s):  
KOUROSH NOZARI ◽  
S. HAMID MEHDIPOUR
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Extra Dimensions ◽  
Large Extra Dimensions ◽  
Generalized Uncertainty Principle ◽  
Black Hole Thermodynamics ◽  
Gravitational Effects ◽  
Model Universe ◽  
Suitable Framework

Bekenstein–Hawking formalism of black hole thermodynamics should be modified to incorporate quantum gravitational effects. Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) provides a suitable framework to perform such modifications. In this paper, we consider a general form of GUP to find black hole thermodynamics in a model universe with large extra dimensions. We will show that black holes radiate mainly in the four-dimensional brane. Existence of black holes remnants as a possible candidate for dark matter is discussed.

scholarly journals Residual diffeomorphisms and symplectic soft hairs: The need to refine strict statement of equivalence principle

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 1644019 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Equivalence Principle ◽  
General Feature ◽  
Measure Zero ◽  
General Covariance ◽  
Conserved Charges ◽  
Special Measure ◽  
Einstein’S General Relativity

General covariance is the cornerstone of Einstein’s general relativity (GR) and implies that any two metrics related by diffeomorphisms are physically equivalent. There are, however, many examples pointing to the fact that this strict statement of general covariance needs refinement. There are a very special (measure-zero) subset of diffeomorphisms, the residual diffeomorphisms, to which one can associate well-defined conserved charges. This would hence render these diffeomorphic geometries physically distinct. We discuss that these symmetries may be appropriately called “symplectic symmetries”. Existence of residual diffeomorphisms and symplectic symmetries can be a quite general feature and not limited to the examples discussed so far in the literature. We propose that, in the context of black holes, these diffeomorphic, but distinct, geometries may be viewed as “symplectic soft hair” on black holes. We comment on how this may remedy black hole microstate problem, which in this context are dubbed as “horizon fluffs”.

scholarly journals Driven black holes: from Kolmogorov scaling to turbulent wakes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Andrade ◽  
Christiana Pantelidou ◽  
Julian Sonner ◽  
Benjamin Withers
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Dynamics ◽  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Strong Field ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Event Horizons ◽  
Binary Mergers ◽  
Tidal Deformations ◽  
Proof Of Principle

Abstract General relativity governs the nonlinear dynamics of spacetime, including black holes and their event horizons. We demonstrate that forced black hole horizons exhibit statistically steady turbulent spacetime dynamics consistent with Kolmogorov’s theory of 1941. As a proof of principle we focus on black holes in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes in a large number of dimensions, where greater analytic control is gained. We focus on cases where the effective horizon dynamics is restricted to 2+1 dimensions. We also demonstrate that tidal deformations of the horizon induce turbulent dynamics. When set in motion relative to the horizon a deformation develops a turbulent spacetime wake, indicating that turbulent spacetime dynamics may play a role in binary mergers and other strong-field phenomena.

scholarly journals Black hole thermodynamics from quantum gravity

1997 ◽  
Vol 486 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 131-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilad Lifschytz ◽  
Miguel Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Black Hole Thermodynamics
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