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We consider a static spherically symmetric black hole with a general form of the metric
$ {\rm d} s^{2} = -G(r) F(r) {\rm d} t^{2}+\frac{1}{F(r)} {\rm d} r^{2}+r^{2} {\rm d} \Omega^{2}, $
(1) with
$ F(r) = 1+2 \phi(r), $
(2) where
$ \phi(r) $ is the gravitational potential. Generally, we introduce$ F(r) $ to include the strong quantum gravity effects that modify the singularity at the Planck scale, while$ G(r) $ accounts for the weak quantum gravity effects as well as the finite time delay between an observer at the center and one at infinity. Thus, we assume that$ G(r) $ is a regular function of the radius, while the position of the horizon$ r_h $ is solely determined by$ g^{rr} = F(r_h) = 0 $ . With this ansatz, it is straightforward to derive the Kretschmann scalar curvature which has been included in Appendix A.In this study, we consider a specifical modification of the regular black hole proposed in [23] by adopting the strategy presented in [26]. Thus, the gravitational potential
$ \phi(r) $ and modified function$ G(r) $ are specified as$ \phi = -\frac{M}{r} {\rm e}^{-\alpha M^x / r^{n}}, \ \ \ \ \ G(r) = 1-\frac{\beta M \gamma}{\gamma r^{3}+\beta M}, $
(3) where α, β, and γ are dimensionless constants. We have also set
$ l_p = M_p = 1 $ throughout the paper, which implies that to recover the correct dimensions of any physical quantity,$ l_p $ or$ m_p $ should be inserted appropriately. The above form of$ \phi(r) $ was originally proposed by us in [23]. When x and n are specified with$ n>x\geqslant 0 $ and$ n\geqslant 1 $ , it produces several regular black holes with asymptotically Minkowski cores. With$ G(r) = 1 $ , the sub-Planckian and and thermodynamical features of the Kretschmann curvature have been investigated in detail in [23].The above form of
$ G(r) $ was first proposed in [26], resulting in a modified Hayward black hole. Here, we adopt the same form to introduce the 1-loop quantum correction to the gravitational potential and a time delay between the center and infinity. It is evident that with$ G(r) = 1 $ , the regular black hole proposed in Ref. [23] is recovered. Now, with non-trivial$ G(r) $ , it is also straightforward to obtain the location of the outer horizon and the thermodynamics of the above modified black holes, which are presented in Appendix B and Appendix C, respectively. Here, we intend to demonstrate how a 1-loop quantum correction and time delay can be incorporated by the function$ G(r) $ . For such modified regular black holes, the metric component$ g_{00} $ at large scale behaves as$ g_{00} = 1-\frac{2 M}{r}-\frac{\beta M }{r^3}+\frac{2\beta M^2 }{r^4}+\frac{2\alpha M^{x+1} }{r^{n+1}}+o\left(\frac{1}{r^{n+2}}\right). $
(4) Furthermore, the leading quantum correction to the Newtonian potential has been perturbatively computed, and the large scale behavior of gravitational potential takes the following form [24, 25]
$ \phi(r) = -\frac{M}{r}\left(1+ \frac{41}{10\pi}\frac{1}{r^2}+...\right), $
(5) where the leading term is described with a positive sign. In this paper, we require that
$ n\geqslant x \geqslant n/3 $ and$ n\geqslant 2 $ such that Kretschmann curvature can be sub-Planckian, irrespective of the mass of the black holes, as analyzed in [23]. Therefore, the exponential form of the gravitational potential has no contribution to the 1-loop quantum correction, and we simply set$ \beta = 41/(5 \pi) $ to reproduce such a 1-loop quantum correction①.Next, we explain how time delay is incorporated by
$ G(r) $ with the parameter γ. First, we note that the metric component$ g_{00} $ at the center remains time-like, which is in contrast to the standard Schwarzschild black hole. Thus, we may compare the times for two clocks placed at the center and infinity. Specifically, the time delay may be defined as$ (\delta t_{\infty}-\delta t_{0})/\delta t_{\infty} = $ $ 1-\sqrt{|g_{00}(0)}| $ as proposed in [26]. Before introducing the function$ G(r) $ , it is easy to see that$ F(r)\rightarrow 1 $ as$ r\rightarrow 0 $ , which means there is no time delay between these two clocks. This is an unusual feature, since the distribution of matter generally leads to time delay effects during stellar or matter collapse. Therefore, we introduce a parameter γ with$ 1> \gamma \geqslant 0 $ in$ G(r) $ to generate a desired time delay at the center. It is evident as$ r\rightarrow 0 $ ,$ G(r)\rightarrow 1-\gamma $ and$ F(r)\rightarrow 1 $ , and then, the time delay between two clocks at the center and infinity is measured by γ.Now, we are concerned with the effects of
$ G(r) $ on the Kretschmann scalar curvature. As demonstrated in [23] with$ G(r) = 1 $ , if$ n\geqslant x \geqslant n/3 $ and$ n\geqslant 2 $ , the Kretschmann curvature can be always sub-Planckian, because its maximal value$K_{\max}$ is inversely proportional to the black hole mass. The saturated case is reached at$ x = n/3 $ , where the maximal value$K_{\max}$ is independent of the mass of black holes. Specially, when$ n = 2 $ and$ n = 3 $ regular black holes with asymptotically Minkowski cores correspond to the Bardeen black hole and Hayward black hole, respectively, in the sense that they have the same asymptotic behavior at large scales. Now, once the function$ G(r) $ is introduced, it should be noted that the maximal value of the Kretschmann curvature generally becomes a function of the mass M, and parameters α and γ, denoted as$K^{\max}(m,\alpha, \gamma)$ . In particular, in this form as$ \gamma \rightarrow 1 $ in this form, the metric component$ g_{tt} $ becomes vanishing, such that the Kretschmann scalar curvature can easily exceed the Planckian mass density, as demonstrated explicitly in the next sections. This behavior is not unexpected, and implies that an arbitrarily large time delay is not possible. This is quite reasonable from physical perspectives, because any time delay induced by the matter distribution should be finite. Therefore, with a given α, we intend to define a maximal value of γ that saturates the bound of the Kretschmann scalar curvature by scanning the black hole mass with$K^{\max}( \gamma_{\max}) = 1$ for a certain mass m. More importantly, we note that in the region$ n\geqslant x \geqslant n/3 $ and$ n\geqslant 2 $ , this assumption always holds, because$K^{\max}$ will not increase with the mass M forever in this region, but becomes saturated at large M for black holes. This will be justified by the numerical analysis described in the next sections. Therefore, for a given α, we can obtain the maximum time delay$\gamma_{\max}$ such that given a γ under the condition$\gamma_{\max} > \gamma\geqslant 0$ , the Kretschmann curvature is maintained at the sub-Planckian scale for all black hole masses. This behavior is expected, because once all the parameters are specified in Eq. (3), the sub-Planckian feature of K is preserved during the evaporation process, in which the black hole mass changes. Therefore, we numerically plot$\gamma_{\max}$ as a function of α for typical regular black holes in Fig. 1. It can be seen in the figure that$\gamma_{\max}$ increases rapidly with increasing α, and then becomes saturated as$\gamma_{\max}\rightarrow 1$ . In particular, for a Bardeen black hole it approaches unity rapidly in the region with smaller α. However, for the black holes described below, we consider the time delay with$\gamma_{\max} > \gamma\geqslant 0$ , such that the sub-Planckian feature is always guaranteed for the Kretschmann scalar curvature.Figure 1. (color online)
$\gamma_{\max}$ as the function of α, which is defined as$K^{\max}( \gamma_{\max}) = 1$ and obtained by scanning the mass of black holes. The left plot is for the regular black holes with asymptotically Minkowski core while the right plot is for the regular black holes with asymptotically de-Sitter core.We argue that our above treatment is a dramatic improvement in comparison with the scheme adoptedin [26], where the maximal value of γ is defined for a given mass. In the next sections, will show that for a given α and γ, the Kretschmann curvature is sub-Planckian at some large mass. However, this does not guarantee that it must be sub-Planckian at any mass, even if it becomes saturated in a large mass limit (which is generally true). On the contrary, the Kretschmann curvature may exceed the Planck scale easily when the mass decreases. For instance, in Fig. 6 of [26], which describes a modified Hayward black hole, K is sub-Planckian for
$ M = 10^5 $ . However, if the mass decreased with other parameters fixed,$K_{\max}$ can easily exceed unity. For instance, if$ M = 10^2 $ , then$K_{\max}\simeq 6000$ . In summary, the introduction of a$\gamma_{\max}$ independent of mass in this work enables specifying the parameter values such that the sub-Planckian feature of the Kretschmann curvature can be preserved during evaporation. -
In this section, we describe the modified regular black hole with
$ n = 2 $ and$ x = 2/3 $ , which corresponds to a Bardeen black hole at large scales. The gravitational potential$ \phi(r) $ of a Bardeen black hole is given as$ \phi(r) = -\frac{M r^{2}}{\left(\dfrac{2}{3} \alpha M^{2/3}+r^{2}\right)^{3 / 2}}. $
(6) It can be verified that these two black holes have the same expansion behavior for large radius. Nevertheless, they have distinct behavior near the central core. The former has an asymptotically Minkowski core, while Bardeen black hole has a de-Sitter core.
Similarly, we note that for the regular black hole with
$ x = 2/3, \ n = 2 $ , the mass is bounded by$M \geqslant $ $ \left(\dfrac{e}{2}\right)^{3 / 4} \alpha^{3 /4}$ , which is solely determined by the exponentially suppressing potential controlled by the parameter α. Thus, the presence of$ G(r) $ does not affect black hole evaporation significantly, and black hole remnants maintain the final stage. Again, α has the minimal value$\alpha_{\min} \simeq 0.875$ , which is defined by$K_{\max}(\alpha_{\min}) = 1$ with$ \gamma = 0 $ . However, for the Bardeen black hole, it is worth noting that$M \geqslant \left(\dfrac{9 \alpha }{4}\right)^3$ , indicating that$M_{\min}$ increases with$ \alpha^3 $ . Thus,$M_{\min}$ grows rapidly with$ \alpha>1 $ . This behavior is in contrast with the other regular black holes described in this paper.Now, we compare the Kretschmann scalar curvature K as a function of the radius r for these two black holes. In Fig. 6, we plot the Kretschmann curvature
$ K(r) $ for$ \gamma = 0.5 $ , which is much smaller than$\gamma_{\max}$ . One finds$ K(0) = 0 $ for black holes with$ x = 2/3 $ and$ n = 2 $ , while$K(0) = K_{\max}$ for Bardeen black holes, irrespective of the black hole mass . However, for γ close to$\gamma_{\max}$ , for instance$ \gamma = 0.8 $ , as illustrated in Fig. 7, the maximal value of K deviates from the center for the Bardeen black hole.Figure 6. (color online) Kretschmann curvature K as the function of the radial coordinate r for
$ \gamma = 0.5 $ . The left plot is for the regular black hole with$ x = 2/3, \ n = 2 $ , while the right plot is for Bardeen black hole.Figure 7. (color online) Kretschmann curvature K as the function of the radial coordinate r for
$ \gamma = 0.8 $ . The left plot is for the regular black hole with$ n = 2, \ x = 2/3 $ , while the right plot is for Bardeen black hole.Next, we focus on the mass dependent behavior of
$K_{\max}$ for these two black holes. It has been shown in [23] that when$ G(r) = 1 $ , both black holes are characterized by the fact that$K_{\max}$ is independent of the black hole mass. However, when$ G(r) $ is included, we find that this feature does not hold anymore. This can be anticipated considering the fact that an arbitrarily large time delay renders the metric singular again. Therefore, in this case, we demonstrate the mass dependent behavior of$K_{\max}$ for different values of γ in Fig. 8. First, when$ G(r) = 1 $ , i.e.,$ \gamma = 0 $ ,$K_{\max}$ is a constant (see the left plot of Fig. 8), while with increasing γ, we note that$K_{\max}$ becomes larger and mass dependent. In particular, it is observed that as γ approaches$ \gamma_{\max} $ ,$ K_{\max} $ with small masses becomes larger, and this phenomenon is observed for the black hole with$ x = 2/3, \ n = 2 $ and for the Bardeen black hole, as illustrated in Fig. 8 ($ \gamma = 0.4 $ in the left plot while$ \gamma = 1-3\times 10^{-5} $ in the right plot). Thus,$ K_{\max} $ with small masses always approaches unity at first, and determines the value of$\gamma_{\max}$ when scanning the mass of black holes. This tendency also makes it more difficult to figure out$\gamma_{\max}$ by scanning the mass of black holes, as shown in Fig. 1. Moreover,$K_{\max}$ always becomes saturated in the large mass limit. This feature is important in selecting$ \gamma_{\max} $ to preserve the sub-Planckian features of$ K_{\max} $ . In addition, the mass dependent behavior of$ K_{\max} $ in Bardeen black holes does not change significantly until$ \gamma\rightarrow \gamma_{\max} $ , and the mass scale is much larger than that for the black hole with$ x = 2/3, \ n = 2 $ , which indicates that$M_{\min}\propto \alpha^3$ , since we have set$ \alpha = 20 $ .Figure 8. (color online) The maximum value of Kretschmann curvature
$K_{\max}$ as the function of M for the black hole with$ n = 2, \ x = 2/3 $ (left) and Bardeen black hole (right).Finally, the thermodynamical behavior of the black hole is illustrated in Fig. 9 and Fig. 10. We find that the maximal value of the Hawking temperature decreases slightly with increasing γ, while the entropy increases slightly with increasing γ.
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In this section, we describe the modified regular black hole with
$ n = 3 $ and$ x = 1 $ , which corresponds to a Hayward black hole at large scales. The gravitational potential for a Hayward black hole is given by$ \phi(r) = -\frac{M r^{2}}{r^{3}+M \alpha}. $
(7) We plot the Kretschmann curvature K as a function of the radial coordinate r in Fig. 11, where
$ M = \dfrac{1}{2} \sqrt{\dfrac{3 e \alpha}{2}} $ is the minimal value allowed for the regular black hole with$ x = 1 $ and$ n = 3 $ , while$ M = \dfrac{3}{4} \sqrt{\dfrac{3 \alpha}{2}} $ is the minimal value allowed for the Hayward black hole. It is found that$K_{\max}$ moves to the right with larger radius as the mass increases for the black hole with$ x = 1 $ and$ n = 3 $ , while for the Bardeen black hole$K_{\max}$ deviates from the center.Figure 11. (color online) The Kretschmann scalar curvature K as the functions of the radial coordinate r. The left plot is for the regular black hole with
$ n = 3, \ x = 1 $ , while the right plot is for Hayward black hole.Next, we focus on the mass dependent behavior of
$K_{\max}$ . We plot$ K_{\max} $ as a function of M for both black holes, as illustrated in Fig. 12. The phenomenon is similar to that described in the previous section. This figure explicitly exhibits that$ K_{\max} $ does not depend on the mass of black holes when$ \gamma = 0 $ , as expected. However, when the time delay parameter γ is included, for instance$ \gamma = 0.2 $ in the left plot and$ \gamma = 0.6, 0.7 $ in the right plot, we find$ K_{\max} $ increases with the mass and becomes saturated in the large mass limit. On increasing γ further,$ K_{\max} $ becomes larger on the side with small masses, for instance when$ \gamma = 0.3,0.4 $ in the left plot and$ \gamma = 0.8 $ in the right plot. In this situation,$ K_{\max} $ decreases with the mass and then becomes saturated in the large mass limit.Figure 12. (color online) The maximum value of the Kretschmann scalar curvature K as the function of M for
$ n = 3, \ x = 1 $ (left) and Hayward black hole(right).Finally, we remark that the thermodynamical behavior of this modified regular black hole is similar to those described in previous sections. The maximal value of the Hawking temperature becomes slightly smaller with increasing γ, while the entropy becomes increases slightly with increasing γ.
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For the ansatz in Eq. (1), it is straightforward to derive the Kretschmann scalar curvature as
$ \begin{aligned}[b] K =& R^{\mu \nu \rho \lambda} R_{\mu \nu \rho \lambda} = \frac{(2 \phi (r)+1)^2 G'(r)^4}{4 G(r)^4} \\&+4 \left(\frac{4 \left(r^2 \phi '(r)^2+\phi (r)^2\right)}{r^4}+\phi ''(r)^2\right) \\& +\frac{1}{r^2 G(r)^2}(r^2 (2 \phi (r)+1)^2 G''(r)^2\\&+G'(r)^2 (-2 r^2 (2 \phi (r)+1) \phi ''(r) \\ & +9 r^2 \phi '(r)^2+8 \phi (r)^2+8 \phi (r)+2)\\&+6 r^2 (2 \phi (r)+1) G'(r) G''(r) \phi '(r)) \\ &-\frac{1}{G(r)^3}\Big((2 \phi (r)+1) G'(r)^2 (2 \phi (r)+1) G''(r)\\&+3 G'(r) \phi '(r)\Big)\\ &+\frac{1}{r^2 G(r)}\Big(4 r^2 (2 \phi (r)+1) G''(r) \phi ''(r)\\&+G'(r) \phi '(r) \left(3 r^2 \phi ''(r)+4 \phi (r)+2\right)\Big). \end{aligned} \tag{A1}$
Furthermore, if we consider that
$ G(r) $ only affects the time delay at the center without changing the asymptotical behavior, it is reasonable to require that$ G'(0) = G''(0) = 0 $ . Then, as$ r\rightarrow 0 $ , we find that the Kretschmann scalar curvature behaves as$ K \sim 4\phi ''(r)^2+ \frac{16 \phi '(r)^2}{r^2} +\frac{16 \phi(r)^2}{r^4}. \tag{A2} $
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In this section, we derive the location of the outer horizon for the modified regular black hole, where the metric components are specified by Eq. (3). First, we notice that the location of the outer horizon is not affected by
$ G(r) $ , and it is solely determined by$ F(r_h) = 0 $ , which yields the relationship between$ r_h $ and M:$ 2M = r_h {\rm e}^{\alpha M^x / r_h^{n}}. \tag{B1} $
We rewrite the radius of the horizon
$ r_h $ as$ r_h = 2 M \left(\frac{\theta}{W(\theta)}\right)^{1/n}, \quad \theta = -\frac{\alpha}{2 M^{2-x}}, \tag{B2} $
where
$ W(\theta) = \sum\limits_{n = 1}^{\infty} \frac{(-n)^{n-1}}{n !} \theta^{n}, \tag{B3}$
is the Lambert-W function with
$ W(\theta)\geqslant -1 $ . A real W requires$ \theta \geqslant -e^{-1} $ , and thus, the mass of modified regular black hole is bounded by$ M \geqslant\frac{1}{2} (e \alpha )^{\frac{1}{2-x}}. \tag{B4} $
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For the modified black holes with non-trivial
$ G(r) $ , the black hole temperature and luminosity are respectively given by$ \begin{aligned}[b] T =& \left[-\frac{1}{4 \pi} \sqrt{-g^{tt}g^{rr}} \frac{{\rm d}}{{\rm d} r} g_{tt}\right]_{r = r_h}\\ =& \frac{\left(2 \phi \left(r_h\right)+1\right) G'\left(r_h\right)+2 G\left(r_h\right) \phi ' \left(r_h\right)}{4 \pi \sqrt{G\left(r_h\right)}},\\ L =& \sigma T^{4} A = \frac{\sigma r_h^2 \left(\left(2 \phi \left(r_h\right)+1\right) G'\left(r_h\right)+2 G\left(r_h\right) \phi '\left(r_h\right)\right){}^4}{64 \pi ^3 G\left(r_h\right){}^2}. \end{aligned}\tag{C1} $
Using Eqs. (11) and (14), the heat capacity can be derived as
$ C = \frac{{\rm d} M}{{\rm d} T} = \frac{{\rm d} M/{\rm d} r_h}{{\rm d} T/ {\rm d} r_h}. \tag{C2} $
Moreover, according to the first law of black hole thermodynamics, the entropy of the modified black hole is given by
$ S = \int \frac{{\rm d} M}{T}. \tag{C3} $
Generally, due to the correction of the Hawking temperature, it is well known that the entropy of the modified black holes will deviate from the area law, and include higher order corrections. For instance, for the Hayward black hole in [28], the integrated form of the entropy can be expanded as
$ S = \pi r_h^2+\pi \alpha \log \left(2 r_h^2-\alpha \right)-\frac{\pi \alpha }{2}-\frac{\pi \alpha ^2}{2 \left(2 r_h^2-\alpha \right)}. \tag{C4} $
For the Bardeen black hole in [29], the integrated form of the entropy is given by
$ S = 2 \pi \left(\left(\frac{r_h}{2}-\frac{\alpha }{r_h}\right) \sqrt{\alpha +r_h^2}+\frac{3}{2} \alpha \log \left(\sqrt{\alpha +r_h^2}+r_h\right)\right). \tag{C5} $
For the regular black hole in [18], the integrated form of the entropy can be written as
$ S = \int \frac{{\rm d} M}{T} = {\rm e}^{\frac{\alpha }{r_h^2}} \pi r_h^2+2 \pi \alpha \int \frac{{\rm e}^{\frac{\alpha }{r_h^2}}}{r_h} \, {\rm d} r_h. \tag{C6} $
For the black hole discussed in this paper, such expansions become very complicated and we just present the numerical results in the main body of the text.
Modified regular black holes with time delay and 1-loop quantum correction
- Received Date: 2021-09-28
- Available Online: 2022-02-15
Abstract: We develop the regular black hole solutions by incorporating the 1-loop quantum correction to the Newton potential and a time delay between an observer at the regular center and one at infinity. We define the maximal time delay between the center and the infinity by scanning the mass of black holes such that the sub-Planckian feature of the Kretschmann scalar curvature is preserved during the process of evaporation. We also compare the distinct behavior of the Kretschmann curvature for black holes with asymptotically Minkowski cores and those with asymptotically de-Sitter cores, including Bardeen and Hayward black holes. We expect that such regular black holes may provide more information about the construction of effective metrics for Planck stars.