Conformal Dilaton Gravity and Warped Spacetimes in 5D

TL;DR

This paper presents an exact, time-dependent black hole solution in conformally invariant gravity on a warped 5D spacetime, exploring observer perspectives, regularity conditions, and implications for unitarity near horizons.

Contribution

It introduces a novel exact black hole solution in conformal dilaton gravity within warped 5D spacetime, analyzing conformal gauges and observer-dependent effects.

Findings

Black hole solution is regular and topologically consistent.

Different conformal gauges describe in-going and outside observer perspectives.

Potential resolution of unitarity issues in quantum gravity near horizons.

Abstract

An exact time-dependent solution of a black hole is found in conformally invariant gravity on a warped Randall-Sundrum spacetime, by writing the metric $g_{\mu\nu}=\omega^{\frac{4}{n-2}}\tilde g_{\mu\nu}$. Here $\tilde g_{\mu\nu}$ represents the "un-physical" spacetime and $\omega$ the dilaton field, which will be treated on equal footing as any renormalizable scalar field. In the case of a five-dimensional warped spacetime, we write $ ^{(4)}{\tilde g_{\mu\nu}}=\bar\omega^2{ ^{(4)}\bar g_{\mu\nu}}$ Both $\omega$ and $\bar\omega$ can be used to describe the different notion the in-going and outside observers have of the Hawking radiation by using different conformal gauge freedom. The disagreement about the interior of the black hole is explained by the antipodal map of points on the horizon. The free parameters of the solution can be chosen in such a way that $\bar g_{\mu\nu}$ is singular-free and topologically regular, even for $\omega\rightarrow 0$. It is remarkable that the 5D and 4D effective field equations for the metric components and dilaton fields can be written in general dimension $ n= 4,5$. It is conjectured that, in context of quantization procedures in the vicinity of the horizon, unitarity problems only occur in the bulk at large extra-dimension scale. The subtraction point in an effective theory will be in the UV only in the bulk, because the use of a large extra dimension results in a fundamental Planck scale comparable with the electroweak scale.