Dynamical renormalization of black-hole spacetimes

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We construct a black-hole spacetime which includes the running of the gravitational coupling in a self-consistent way. Starting from a classical Schwarzschild black hole, the backreaction effects produced by the running Newton’s coupling are taken into account iteratively. The sequence, described by a simple recurrence relation, flows towards a self-consistent solution that can be derived analytically. As a key result, if the gravitational renormalization group flow attains a non-trivial fixed point at high energies, the sequence converges to a “renormalized” black-hole spacetime of the Dymnikova-type, which is free of singularities.

Original languageEnglish
Article number470
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume79
Issue number6
ISSN1434-6044
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2019

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Acknowledgements The authors thank A. Bonanno, A. Eichhorn and K. Stelle for important comments and discussions. This work was supported by the DFG under grant no Ei-1037/1 and by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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