The Generalized Uncertainty Principle and Black Hole Remnants
By R. Adler, Pisin Chen, D. Santiago. 2001
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In the current standard viewpoint small black holes are believed to emit black body radiation at the Hawking temperature, at least until they approach Planck size, after which their fate is open to conjecture. A cogent argument against the existence of remnants is that, since no evident quantum number prevents it, black holes should radiate completely away to photons and other ordinary stable particles and vacuum, like any unstable quantum system. Here we argue the contrary, that the generalized uncertainty principle may prevent their total evaporation in exactly the same way that the uncertainty principle prevents the hydrogen atom from total collapse: the collapse is prevented, not by symmetry, but by dynamics, as a minimum size and mass are approached.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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Citations in the corpus
- Minimal Length Scale Scenarios for Quantum Gravity (2012, methodology): “the corrections obtained in string theory and LQG may be used to restrict the functional form of the GUP. It has also been argued that taking into account the GUP may give rise to black-hole remnants [2], a possibility that has been explored in many follow-up works, e.g., [87, 243, 315]. Corrections”
- Generalized Uncertainty Principle: Approaches and Applications (2014, methodology): “Accordingly, a modified black hole lifetime was estimated [57] in a conventional way [290].”