Journal of High Energy Physics (May 2020)

Page curve for an evaporating black hole

  • Friðrik Freyr Gautason,
  • Lukas Schneiderbauer,
  • Watse Sybesma,
  • Lárus Thorlacius

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2020)091
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 5
pp. 1 – 23

Abstract

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Abstract A Page curve for an evaporating black hole in asymptotically flat spacetime is computed by adapting the Quantum Ryu-Takayanagi (QRT) proposal to an analytically solvable semi-classical two-dimensional dilaton gravity theory. The Page time is found to be one third of the black hole lifetime, at leading order in semi-classical corrections. A Page curve is also obtained for a semi-classical eternal black hole, where energy loss due to Hawking evaporation is balanced by an incoming energy flux.

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