248 research outputs found
Singularity free gravitational collapse in an effective dynamical quantum spacetime
We model the gravitational collapse of heavy massive shells including its
main quantum corrections. Among these corrections, quantum improvements coming
from Quantum Einstein Gravity are taken into account, which provides us with an
effective quantum spacetime. Likewise, we consider dynamical Hawking radiation
by modeling its back-reaction once the horizons have been generated. Our
results point towards a picture of gravitational collapse in which the
collapsing shell reaches a minimum non-zero radius (whose value depends on the
shell initial conditions) with its mass only slightly reduced. Then, there is
always a rebound after which most (or all) of the mass evaporates in the form
of Hawking radiation. Since the mass never concentrates in a single point, no
singularity appears.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figure
Vacuum spacetimes with an isometry
In vacuum space-times the exterior derivative of a Killing vector field is a
two-form that satisfies Maxwell equations without electromagnetic sources.
Using the algebraic structure of this two-form we have set up a new formalism
for the study of vacuum space-times with an isometry.Comment: 5 pages, sprocl.sty with LateX 2.09; Contribution to the Spanish
Relativity Meeting (ERE 2000), Valladolid, Spain, 6-9.September, 200
Evaporation of (quantum) black holes and energy conservation
We consider Hawking radiation as due to a tunneling process in a black hole
were quantum corrections, derived from Quantum Einstein Gravity, are taken into
account. The consequent derivation, satisfying conservation laws, leads to a
deviation from an exact thermal spectrum. The non-thermal radiation is shown to
carry information out of the black hole. Under the appropriate approximation, a
quantum corrected temperature is assigned to the black hole. The evolution of
the quantum black hole as it evaporates is then described by taking into
account the full implications of energy conservation as well as the
back-scattered radiation. It is shown that, as a critical mass of the order of
Planck's mass is reached, the evaporation process decelerates abruptly while
the black hole mass decays towards this critical mass.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figure
The mechanism why colliders could create quasi-stable black holes
It has been postulated that black holes could be created in particle
collisions within the range of the available energies for nowadays colliders
(LHC). In this paper we analyze the evaporation of a type of black holes that
are candidates for this specific behaviour, namely, small black holes on a
brane in a world with large extra-dimensions. We examine their evolution under
the assumption that energy conservation is satisfied during the process and
compare it with the standard evaporation approach. We claim that, rather than
undergoing a quick total evaporation, black holes become quasi-stable. We
comment on the (absence of) implications for safety of this result. We also
discuss how the presence of black holes together with the correctness of the
energy conservation approach might be experimentally verified.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figure
Vacuum spacetimes with a spacelike, hypersurface-orthogonal Killing vector: reduced equations in a canonical frame
The Newman-Penrose equations for spacetimes having one spacelike Killing
vector are reduced -- in a geometrically defined "canonical frame'' -- to a
minimal set, and its differential structure is studied. Expressions for the
frame vectors in an arbitrary coordinate basis are given, and
coordinate-independent choices of the metric functions are suggested which make
the components of the Ricci tensor in the direction of the Killing vector
vanish.Comment: 13 pages, no figures, LaTeX, to be published in Class. Quantum
Gravity; v2: added/rephrased content, corrected typos, changed 1 referenc
On the invariant causal characterization of singularities in spherically symmetric spacetimes
The causal character of singularities is often studied in relation to the
existence of naked singularities and the subsequent possible violation of the
cosmic censorship conjecture. Generally one constructs a model in the framework
of General Relativity described in some specific coordinates and finds an ad
hoc procedure to analyze the character of the singularity. In this article we
show that the causal character of the zero-areal-radius (R=0) singularity in
spherically symmetric models is related with some specific invariants. In this
way, if some assumptions are satisfied, one can ascertain the causal character
of the singularity algorithmically through the computation of these invariants
and, therefore, independently of the coordinates used in the model.Comment: A misprint corrected in Theor. 4.1 /Cor. 4.
On the Papapetrou field in vacuum
In this paper we study the electromagnetic fields generated by a Killing
vector field in vacuum space-times (Papapetrou fields). The motivation of this
work is to provide new tools for the resolution of Maxwell's equations as well
as for the search, characterization, and study of exact solutions of Einstein's
equations. The first part of this paper is devoted to an algebraic study in
which we give an explicit and covariant procedure to construct the principal
null directions of a Papapetrou field. In the second part, we focus on the main
differential properties of the principal directions, studying when they are
geodesic, and in that case we compute their associated optical scalars. With
this information we get the conditions that a principal direction of the
Papapetrou field must satisfy in order to be aligned with a multiple principal
direction of the Weyl tensor in the case of algebraically special vacuum
space-times. Finally, we illustrate this study using the Kerr, Kasner and pp
waves space-times.Comment: 24 pages, LaTeX2e, IOP style. To appear in Classical and Quantum
Gravit
Test particle motion in a gravitational plane wave collision background
Test particle geodesic motion is analysed in detail for the background
spacetimes of the degenerate Ferrari-Ibanez colliding gravitational wave
solutions. Killing vectors have been used to reduce the equations of motion to
a first order system of differential equations which have been integrated
numerically. The associated constants of the motion have also been used to
match the geodesics as they cross over the boundary between the single plane
wave and interaction zones.Comment: 11 pages, 6 Postscript figure
General approach to the study of vacuum space-times with an isometry
In vacuum space-times the exterior derivative of a Killing vector field is a
2-form (named here as the Papapetrou field) that satisfies Maxwell's equations
without electromagnetic sources. In this paper, using the algebraic structure
of the Papapetrou field, we will set up a new formalism for the study of vacuum
space-times with an isometry, which is suitable to investigate the connections
between the isometry and the Petrov type of the space-time. This approach has
some advantages, among them, it leads to a new classification of these
space-times and the integrability conditions provide expressions that determine
completely the Weyl curvature. These facts make the formalism useful for
application to any problem or situation with an isometry and requiring the
knowledge of the curvature.Comment: 24 pages, LaTeX2e, IOP style. To appear in Classical and Quantum
Gravit
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