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Remnants in two-dimensional quantum gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-06-27 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this work we consider a two-dimensional quantum black hole sourced by the trace anomaly of a conformal field theory. By using holography, we are able to prove that the black hole size is always proportional to the number of states inside the black hole, a result that might be interpreted as a two dimensional version of the Bekenstein entropy law. Finally, we also show that such a black hole has a minimal size (a remnant). Extrapolating this result for higher dimensions, we show that this would imply that the remnant has a size way larger than the Planck length and is, therefore, always weakly coupled.

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@article{arxiv.1712.07153,
  title  = {Remnants in two-dimensional quantum gravity},
  author = {Cristiano Germani and David Pereñiguez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.07153},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures

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