Gielen, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-8653-5430 and Menéndez-Pidal, L. orcid.org/0000-0003-3960-2722 (2025) Black hole singularity resolution in unimodular gravity from unitarity. Physical Review Letters, 134 (10). 101501. ISSN 0031-9007
Abstract
We study the quantum dynamics of an interior planar anti–de Sitter black hole, requiring unitarity in the natural time coordinate conjugate to the cosmological “constant of motion” appearing in unimodular gravity. Both the classical singularity and the horizon are replaced by a nonsingular highly quantum region; semiclassical notions of spacetime evolution are only valid in an intermediate region. For the singularity, our results should be applicable to general black holes: unitarity in unimodular time always implies singularity resolution.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | Quantum aspects of black holes; Quantum cosmology; Quantum gravity |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2025 08:35 |
Last Modified: | 27 Mar 2025 08:35 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Physical Society (APS) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1103/physrevlett.134.101501 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:224907 |