Black Hole Singularity Resolution in Unimodular Gravity from Unitarity

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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Physical Review Letters
Published
2025-03-11
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.134.101501
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8
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Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
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Field-Weighted Citation Impact
14.96

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Black Hole Singularity Resolution in Unimodular Gravity from Unitarity

Lucía Menéndez-Pidal, Steffen Gielen
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Physical Review Letters
Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
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Black Hole Singularity Resolution in Unimodular Gravity from Unitarity

Lucía Menéndez-Pidal, Steffen Gielen
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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.

Physical Review LettersVol. 134(10)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (ES), University of Sheffield (GB)
Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society
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