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Global Structure of Evaporating Black Holes

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

Abstract

By extending the charged Vaidya metric to cover all of spacetime, we obtain a Penrose diagram for the formation and evaporation of a charged black hole. In this construction, the singularity is time-like. The entire spacetime can be predicted from initial conditions if boundary conditions at the singularity are known.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9807031,
  title  = {Global Structure of Evaporating Black Holes},
  author = {Maulik K. Parikh and Frank Wilczek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9807031},
  year   = {2009}
}

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LaTeX, 10 pages, 1 figure; v2: references added, uncorrupted figure file