Unitarity in Reissner–Nordström background: striding away from information loss

Abstract

Abstract We have shown analytically that radiation from a collapsing shell which leads to a charged black hole, whose exterior is described by the Reissner–Nordström metric (and hence the background spacetime is non-globally hyperbolic), is processed with a unitary evolution. For the analysis, we have used the Wheeler–deWitt formalism which in turn gave rise to a Schrödinger-like wave equation. We showed the existence of unitarity by proving that the trace of the squared density matrix of the outgoing radiation, from a quantized massless scalar field, is unity and that the conservation of probability holds for the wave function of the system.