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CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
Volume 34, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/aa8da8
Keywords
loop quantum gravity; singularity resolution; black holes
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- NSF [PHY-1404240, PHY-1454832, PHY-1305000, PHY-1505411]
- Penn State University (USA)
- MICINN (Spain) [FIS2014-54800-C2-2-P]
- Pedeciba (Uruguay)
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1505411, 1404240, 1454832] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Recently, a consistent non-perturbative quantization of the Schwarzschild interior resulting in a bounce from black hole to white hole geometry has been obtained by loop quantizing the Kantowski-Sachs vacuum spacetime. As in other spacetimes where the singularity is dominated by the Weyl part of the spacetime curvature, the structure of the singularity is highly anisotropic in the Kantowski-Sachs vacuum spacetime. As a result, the bounce turns out to be in general asymmetric, creating a large mass difference between the parent black hole and the child white hole. In this manuscript, we investigate under what circumstances a symmetric bounce scenario can be constructed in the above quantization. Using the setting of Dirac observables and geometric clocks, we obtain a symmetric bounce condition which can be satisfied by a slight modification in the construction of loops over which holonomies are considered in the quantization procedure. These modifications can be viewed as quantization ambiguities, and are demonstrated in three different flavors, all of which lead to a non-singular black to white hole transition with identical masses. Our results show that quantization ambiguities can mitigate or even qualitatively change some key features of the physics of singularity resolution. Further, these results are potentially helpful in motivating and constructing symmetric black to white hole transition scenarios.
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