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Spherical collapse and black hole evaporation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-10-28 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider spherically symmetric gravity coupled to a spherically symmetric scalar field with a specific coupling which depends on the Areal Radius. Classical collapse is described by the Vaidya solution. The semiclassical Einstein equations are well defined. Their solution describes an evaporating black hole. A balance law at future null infinity relates the rate of change of a back reaction-corrected Bondi mass to a manifestly positive flux. Its detailed form suggests a quantum extension of future null infinity along which all information including that in the collapsing matter is expected to emerge.

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@article{arxiv.2406.09176,
  title  = {Spherical collapse and black hole evaporation},
  author = {Madhavan Varadarajan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.09176},
  year   = {2024}
}

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27 pages, 3 figures, typos corrected,references added

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