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Can conformal Transformations change the fate of 2D black holes?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

By using a classical Liouville-type model of two dimensional dilaton gravity we show that the one-loop theory implies that the fate of a black hole depends on the conformal frame. There is one frame for which the evaporation process never stops and another one leading to a complete disappearance of the black hole. This can be seen as a consequence of the fact that thermodynamic variables are not conformally invariant. In the second case the evaporation always produces the same static and regular end-point geometry, irrespective of the initial state.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9811246,
  title  = {Can conformal Transformations change the fate of 2D black holes?},
  author = {J. Cruz and A. Fabbri and J. Navarro-Salas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9811246},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Some typos corrected. A few comments and two references added. Accepted for publication in PLB. Latex, 11 pages, no figures