Particle Production and Positive Energy Theorems for Charged Black Holes in deSitter

TL;DR

This paper investigates the stability, particle production, and energy properties of charged black holes in deSitter space, revealing conditions for thermodynamic equilibrium and proposing a positive energy framework for such spacetimes.

Contribution

It introduces a positive energy construction for asymptotically deSitter spacetimes with zero charge and analyzes particle flux balance conditions for charged black holes.

Findings

Flux from black hole horizon equals cosmological horizon flux at |Q|=M

Spectrum of Hawking radiation is non-thermal

Existence of supercovariantly constant spinors suggests minimum energy states

Abstract

We study quantum mechanical and classical stability properties of Reissner-Nordstrom deSitter spacetimes, which describe black holes with mass $M$ and charge $Q$ in a background with cosmological constant $\Lambda \ge 0$. There are two sources of particle production in these spacetimes; the black hole horizon and the cosmological horizon. A scattering calculation is done to compute the Hawking radiation in these spacetimes. We find that the flux from the black hole horizon equals the flux from the cosmological horizon, if and only if $|Q|=M$, indicating that this is a state of thermodynamic equilibrium. The spectrum, however, is not thermal. We also show that spacetimes containing a number of charge equal to mass black holes with $\Lambda \ge 0$, have supercovariantly constant spinors, suggesting that they may be minimum energy states in a positive energy construction. As a first step in this direction, we present a positive energy construction for asymptotically deSitter spacetimes with vanishing charge. Because the construction depends only on a spatial slice, our result also holds for spacetimes which are asymptotically Robertson-Walker.