Published July 10, 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

Collapsing objects with the same gravitational trajectory can radiate away different amount of energy

  • 1. Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Key Lab for Particle Physics and Cosmology, and Center for Astrophysics and Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240 (China)
  • 2. HEPCOS, Department of Physics, SUNY, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260-1500 (United States)

Description

We study radiation emitted during the gravitational collapse from two different types of shells. We assume that one shell is made of dark matter and is completely transparent to the test scalar (for simplicity) field which belongs to the standard model, while the other shell is made of the standard model particles and is totally reflecting to the scalar field. These two shells have exactly the same mass, charge and angular momentum (though we set the charge and angular momentum to zero), and therefore follow the same geodesic trajectory. However, we demonstrate that they radiate away different amount of energy during the collapse. This difference can in principle be used by an asymptotic observer to reconstruct the physical properties of the initial collapsing object other than mass, charge and angular momentum. This result has implications for the information paradox and expands the list of the type of information which can be released from a collapsing object.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.036

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2016.05.036;
arXiv
arXiv:1605.06026v1;
PII
S0370-2693(16)30183-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
758
Journal Page Range
p. 412-415
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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