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The de Broglie-Bohm Interpretation of Evaporating Black-Holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In this work we apply the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics to the quantized spherically symmetric black-hole coupled to a massless scalar field. The wave-functional used was first obtained by Tomimatsu using the standard ADM quantization and a gauge that places the observer close to the black-hole horizon. Using the causal interpretation, we compute quantum trajectories determined by the initial conditions. We show that the quantum trajectories for the black-hole mass can either increase or decrease with time. The quantum trajectories that show increasing mass represent the usual black-hole behavior of continuous energy absorption. The mass-decreasing quantum trajectories are a purely quantum mechanical phenomena. They can be physically interpreted as describing a black-hole that evaporates.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0404073,
  title  = {The de Broglie-Bohm Interpretation of Evaporating Black-Holes},
  author = {J. Acacio de Barros and G. Oliveira-Neto and T. B. Vale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0404073},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Revtex version, 13 pages, no figures