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Regular evaporating black holes with stable cores

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-01-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

A feature shared by many regular black hole spacetimes is the occurrence of a Cauchy horizon. It is then commonly believed that this renders the geometry unstable against perturbations through the mass-inflation effect. In this work, we perform the first dynamical study of this effect taking into account the mass-loss of the black hole due to Hawking radiation. It is shown that the time-dependence of the background leads to two novel types of late-time behavior whose properties are entirely determined by the Hawking flux. The first class of attractor-behavior is operative for regular black holes of the Hayward and renormalization group improved type and characterized by the square of the Weyl curvature growing as v6v^6 at asymptotically late times. This singularity is inaccessible to a radially free-falling observer though. The second class is realized by Reissner-Nordstr{\"o}m black holes and regular black holes of the Bardeen type. In this case the curvature scalars remain finite as vv\rightarrow\infty. Thus the Hawking flux has a profound effect on the mass-inflation instability, either weakening the effect significantly or even expelling it entirely.

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@article{arxiv.2209.10612,
  title  = {Regular evaporating black holes with stable cores},
  author = {Alfio Bonanno and Amir-Pouyan Khosravi and Frank Saueressig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.10612},
  year   = {2023}
}

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17 pages, 9 figures

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