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Abstract We derive the mass term of the Bardeen metric in ity would be competent to solve the problem appropriately,
the presence of a noncommutative geometry induced mini- several phenomenological scenarios have been considered in
mal length. In this setup, the proposal of a stable black hole the literature in order to study BHs with regular centers (for
remnant as a candidate to store information is confirmed. a review, see Ansoldi 2008). In 1968, Bardeen (1968) intro-
We consider the possibility of having an extremal configu- duced a compact object with an event horizon and without
ration with one degenerate event horizon and compare dif- an intrinsic singularity, namely Bardeen BH; it is the first
ferent sizes of black hole remnants. As a result, once the regular BH model in general relativity. The Bardeen space-
magnetic charge g of the noncommutative Bardeen solution time is spherically symmetric without violating the weak en-
becomes larger, both the minimal nonzero mass M0 and the ergy condition and the inside of the horizon is deSitter-like
minimal nonzero horizon radius r0 get larger. This means, wherein the matter has a high pressure. In 2000, Ayón-Beato
subsequently, under the condition of an adequate amount of and García (2000) reinterpreted the Bardeen model as the
g, the three parameters g, M0 , and r0 are in a connection gravitational field of a nonlinear magnetic monopole. A few
with each other linearly. According to our results, a non- years later, Hayward (2006) investigated the formation and
commutative Bardeen black hole is colder than the noncom- evaporation of a new kind of the regular solution, i.e. Hay-
mutative Schwarzschild black hole and its remnant is bigger, ward BH, in which its static region is Bardeen-like and the
so the minimum required energy for the formation of such a dynamic regions are Vaidya-like. Recently, a family of ro-
black hole at particle colliders will be larger. We also find a tating regular solutions have been obtained by applying the
closely similar result for the Hayward solution. Newman-Janis algorithm to the Hayward and to the Bardeen
spacetimes (Bambi and Modesto 2013). Afterwards, a gen-
Keywords Regular black hole · Hawking temperature · eral class of regular solutions using a general mass term
Noncommutative geometry · Black hole remnant described by a function which generalizes the Bardeen and
Hayward mass terms have been constructed (Neves and Saa
2014). The regular BHs have extensively been studied in the
1 Introduction recent literature (see for instance, Azreg-Aïnou 2014; Frolov
2014; Amir and Ghosh 2015; Lorenzo et al. 2016; Ghosh
The issue of central singularity of a Black Hole (BH) is an and Amir 2015; Garcia et al. 2015; Toshmatov et al. 2014;
open problem in BH physics. Although it is commonly ac- Ghosh 2015; Stuchlik and Schee 2015).
cepted that only a not yet accessible quantum theory of grav- Besides, Nicolini (2005, 2009), Nicolini et al. (2006),
Ansoldi et al. (2007), Nozari and Mehdipour (2008a) have
B S.H. Mehdipour utilized a spherically symmetric matter distribution lead-
mehdipour@liau.ac.ir ing to no curvature singularity. In fact, they have presented
M.H. Ahmadi a physically inspired type of noncommutativity corrections
ahmadi@liau.ac.ir to BH solutions. In this method, the point-like structure of
1 Department of Physics, College of Basic Sciences, Lahijan mass, instead of being totally localized at a point, is de-
Branch, Islamic Azad University, P.O. Box 1616, Lahijan, Iran scribed by a smeared structure throughout a region of linear
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√
size θ . In other words, the mass density of a static, spheri- 2 The NB solution
cally symmetric, particle-like gravitational source cannot be
a delta function distribution, but will be given by a Gaus- In this section we first include the noncommutative effects
sian distribution ρθ (r) = M/(4πθ)3/2 exp(−r 2 /4θ ). It has in the line element of Bardeen and then analyze the con-
been demonstrated that the modified metric does not allow sequences of the resulting metric. Now, let us start from
the BH to decay below the Planckian relic. The evaporation the Schwarzschild-like class of metrics which describe the
process ends when the size of the BH reaches a Planck-sized spacetimes in the so-called Kerr-Schild form and in the pres-
remnant, explaining the BH released from the curvature sin- ence of matter
gularity at the origin. Here, the regularity of the metrics f (r) 2
emerges from the appearance of a minimal length prepar- ds 2 = dsM2
− 2 kμ dx μ , (1)
r
ing a natural cut-off at small scales. The idea of a mini-
where dsM 2 is the Minkowski line element expressed in a
mal length is confirmed by many outcomes of various ap-
proaches to quantum gravity (Snyder 1947; DeWitt 1964; spherical basis and kμ is a null vector in Minkowski coordi-
Yoneya 1976; Rovelli 1993; Fontanini et al. 2006). This uni- nates. The expression f (r) is found to be
versal cut-off is entered into the energy-momentum tensor of f (r) = 2m(r)r. (2)
the Einstein equations, and stands for the degree of delocal-
ization of the matter distribution (Smailagic and Spallucci According to the Kerr-Schild decomposition, the above
2003a,b, 2004). equation has a general validity, so its generic structure is
From the other viewpoint, all the various arguments con- kept and it is not sensitive to different forms of the mass
cerning the so-called Hawking information loss paradox rely term m(r). For the Bardeen metric we have
on semi-classical methods and guess about the behavior of 3
r2 2
systems in the quantum gravitational regime, but there are m(r) = M 2 , (3)
substantial struggles over the success of the arguments. The r + g2
basis of the information loss problem turns back to Hawk- where g is the magnetic charge of the BH. Now, using the
ing’s discovery that the theory of quantum fields in a curved noncommutativity approach (Nicolini 2005, 2009; Nicol-
spacetime indicates that BHs will emit thermal radiation at ini et al. 2006; Ansoldi et al. 2007; Nozari and Mehdipour
a temperature inversely proportional to their mass (Hawk- 2008a), the metric describing the noncommutative geometry
ing 1975). Conservation of energy points out that the BH inspired Bardeen BH is given by
will lose mass through this procedure, and if nothing stops
the evaporation of the BH will ultimately cease to exist. 2m(r) 2m(r) −1 2
ds 2 = 1 − dt 2 − 1 − dr
This proposition of total evaporation is necessary for Hawk- r r
ing’s argument, and may be refused by a remnant proposal − r 2 d2 , (4)
that we will be considering in this paper (for reviews on re-
solving the paradox, see Preskill 1992; Page 1993; Stephens where m(r) can now be written in terms of the smeared mass
et al. 1994; Russo 2005; Chen et al. 2015; Dymnikova and distribution Mθ as follows:
Khlopov 2015; Banks et al. 1993). In other words, Planck 3
r2 2
scale physics may terminate the Hawking radiation and pro- m(r) = Mθ 2 , (5)
hibit the appearance of a singularity in the center of a BH, r +g 2
i.e. the appearance of a BH remnant; for example, in a recent and Mθ can implicity be given in terms of the lower incom-
result by Paul and Majhi (2016), the nature of the cascade of plete Gamma function,
Hawking emission spectrum in the presence of a back reac- r
2M 3 r2
tion was studied. They observed that under a physical back- Mθ = ρθ (r)4πr dr = √ γ
2
; . (6)
0 π 2 4θ
ground, below a particular value of the mass, which is of the
Plank mass order, the Hawking radiation must stop wherein The radiating behavior of such a noncommutative regular
a remnant is formed. BH can now be easily investigated by plotting the tempo-
In this work we shall include the influences of inspired ral component of the metric, g00 , versus the radius r for an
noncommutativity to the one of the most popular models of extremal BH with different values of g (see Fig. 1). The
non-singular BHs, i.e. the Bardeen BH, and analyze the rem- plot presented in Fig. 1 shows, for several values of mini-
nants of Noncommutative Bardeen (NB) BHs. Afterwards, mal nonzero mass M0 , the possibility of having an extremal
we consider the thermodynamic properties of the NB so- configuration with one degenerate event horizon as the pa-
lution, providing its Hawking temperature. Throughout this rameter g grows. As this figure shows, the coordinate non-
paper natural units are used with the following definitions: commutativity leads to the existence of a remnant mass in
= c = G = k = 1. which the NBBH can shrink to.
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√
Fig. 1 √ The temporal component of √ the metric, g00 , versus the ra- Fig. 2 The√mass of the NBBH, M/ θ , versus √ the event horizon
dius r/ θ for different values of g/ θ . The figure shows the pos- radius, rH / θ , for different values of g/ θ . On the right-hand
sibility of having an extremal configuration with one degenerate event side of the figure, from bottom
√ to top,√ the solid
√ lines√correspond
√
horizon at M = M0 (extremal NBBH). This shows the existence of a to the NBBH for √ g = 1.00 θ, 2.00 θ, 3.00 θ , 4.00 θ, 5.00 θ ,
minimal nonzero mass (M0 ) that the BH can shrink to. On the right– and g = 10.00 θ , respectively. The dashed line refers to the
hand side of the figure, from top
√ to bottom,
√ the √ solid lines
√correspond
√ Schwarzschild case so that it corresponds to g = 0
to the NBBH for √ g = 1.00 θ, 2.00 θ, 3.00 θ, 4.00 θ, 5.00 θ ,
and g = 10.00 θ , respectively. The dashed line refers to the
Schwarzschild case so that it corresponds to g = 0 Table√ 1 The minimal nonzero mass of the NBBH (remnant √ mass,
M0 / θ ) and also the√ minimal nonzero horizon radius,
√ r 0 / θ√ dif-
, for
ferent values of g/ θ . For a large amount of g/ θ , i.e. g/ θ 1,
The line element (4) has a coordinate singularity at the there is a linear relationship between the remnant mass and the rem-
nant radius. As can be seen from the table, the results are comparable
event horizon radius, rH , that can be obtained from the equa-
to Fig. 2
tion g00 (rH ) = 0 as follows
NBBH
2m(rH )
1− = 0, (7) Magnetic charge Remnant mass Remnant radius
rH
with √ √
g=0 M0 ≈ 1.90 θ r0 ≈ 3.02 θ
2 3 √ √ √
rH 2 g = 1.00 θ M0 ≈ 2.19 θ r0 ≈ 3.33 θ
m(rH ) = Mθ (rH ) . (8) √ √ √
2
rH + g2 g = 2.00 θ M0 ≈ 2.92 θ r0 ≈ 3.92 θ
√ √ √
The analytical solution of Eq. (7) for rH in a closed form g = 3.00 θ M0 ≈ 3.96 θ r0 ≈ 4.67 θ
√ √ √
is impossible, but it is possible to solve it to find M, which g = 4.00 θ M0 ≈ 5.20 θ r0 ≈ 5.72 θ
√ √ √
provides the mass of the NBBH as a function of the horizon g = 5.00 θ M0 ≈ 6.49 θ r0 ≈ 7.07 θ
radius rH . This leads to √ √ √
g = 10.00 θ M0 ≈ 12.99 θ r0 ≈ 14.14 θ
rH √ √ √
M= 2
, (9) g = 100.00 θ M0 ≈ 129.90 θ r0 ≈ 141.42 θ
2 rH
2( 2 H 2 ) 2 [E( r√H ) − √rH e− 4θ ]
r 3
.. .. ..
rH +g 2 θ πθ . . .
√
where the Gauss error function E(x) is defined by E(x) ≡ g θ ⇒ g ∝ M0 ∝ r0
√ x
2/ π 0 e−p dp. The results of the numerical solution of
2
and the minimal nonzero horizon radius are enlarged which Planck mass. Possibly, Planckian physics will propose some
subsequently lead us to the final result: way of conserving the information held in the BH.
The remnant proposals are generally divided into two cat-
g ∝ M0 ∝ r0 . (10)
egories. The first is stable remnants and the second is long-
√
This means in the limit g/ σ 1, the magnetic charge is lived remnants. If a remnant is stable, then Planck scale
proportional to the remnant mass and to the remnant radius. quantum gravitational effects shut down the Hawking radi-
Here, it should be emphasized that the physical interpre- ation, and the BH remnant continues to exist for all future
tation of the noncommutative parameter θ is the smallest time. Inasmuch as the BH, and its information, are prohib-
fundamental cell of an observable area in noncommutative ited from vanishing totally, the troubling result of Hawking’s
geometry, in the same way that the Planck constant ex- argument, i.e. the non-unitary evolution is prevented. For ex-
plains the smallest fundamental cell of an observable
√ phase ample, in Nozari and Mehdipour (2009), we have shown
space in quantum mechanics. The scale of θ is, possibly that, as a well-known result of the spacetime noncommu-
and most reasonably, of the order of an inverse characteris- tativity, a part of information may be preserved in a stable
tic energy of the Planck scale. Most of the phenomenologi- BH remnant. On the other hand, the process for long-lived
cal examinations of the noncommutativity models have as- remnants is completely different. They eventually disappear.
sumed that the noncommutative energy scale cannot lie far In spite of the fact that the semi-classical models imply that
above the TeV regime (Hinchliffe et al. 2004; Rizzo 2006; no information can escape in the Hawking radiation, these
Casadio and Nicolini 2008; Spallucci et al. 2009). Given models will fail in Planckian processes. This scenario is in-
that the fundamental Planck scale in models with large ex- spired by this cognition that the physics at the Planck scale
tra dimensions is as small as a TeV, for solving the hierar- might return the information to the external universe, and
chy problem (Antoniadis 1990; Witten 1996; Arkani-Hamed once the coherence of the external universe is made safe,
et al. 1998; Randall and Sundrum 1999), therefore it could the remnant could safely disappear. As an example of long-
be possible to set the noncommutative effects in a TeV en- lived kinds of remnants, one can point to Mehdipour (2010)
ergy scale. in which an exact (t − r) dependent case of a noncommu-
In this process, the minimum value of the NBBH mass tative Schwarzschild-like metric for a Vaidya solution was
increases to a value more than its value for the noncommu- calculated. As an important result of Mehdipour (2010), the
tative Schwarzschild one (see Table 1). Thus, in the theory of idea of a stable BH remnant as a candidate to conserve in-
regular√BHs, if the parameter g becomes sufficiently large, formation has been failed which means that if we pick up a
i.e. g/ θ 1 with a sufficiently
√ small noncommutative in- time-dependent Gaussian distribution of mass/energy, then
verse length parameter (1/ θ ∼ 1 TeV), then the noncom- it will be possible to find a zero remnant mass, albeit in a
mutativity effect can concretely decrease the possible forma- long-time limit.
tion and detection of BHs in TeV-scale collisions at particle One of the serious problems with these remnants is the
colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 1 and the probability of their detection. Given that the interactions
Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR). However, if the of BH remnants are purely gravitational, the cross-section
fundamental Planck scale is of the order of a few TeV, then
is highly small, and a direct observation of these remnants
the LHC may produce BHs. These BHs may have masses on
seems impossible. A possible indirect evidence might be re-
the order of TeV. In this sense, on the other hand, the com-
lated to the cosmic gravitational wave background. In con-
plete decay of BHs is impossible and the final Planck-sized
trast to photons, the gravitons radiated during evaporation
remnant can be thought of as the order of TeV.
would be instantly frozen. Since, the BH evaporation fin-
Based on our computations, the total evaporation of the
ishes when it reduces to a remnant, hence, the graviton spec-
BH is not possible in principle. Therefore, the idea of a sta-
trum should have a cut-off at the Planck mass. In general,
ble BH remnant as a candidate to conserve information has
such a cut-off is expected to have a redshift on the order of
fixed. Note that, currently there are some proposals about
1014 GeV. Moreover, we know that the nature of dark matter
what happens to the information that falls into a BH. One
is hitherto remained an open problem. There exist many dark
of the main proposals is that the BH never disappears com-
matter candidates in which most of them are non-baryonic
pletely, and the information is not lost, but would be stored
weakly interacting massive particles. A candidate which is
in a stable remnant. A remnant proposal reflects the fact that
not closely connected to particle physics is the relics of pri-
the semi-classical approaches used to derive the Hawking
mordial BHs (Zeldovich and Novikov 1966). Some specific
effect are obviously inapplicable when the BH reaches the
inflation models naturally induce a great number of such
1 Note that, a micro BH can be produced at the LHC just under the BHs, e.g. the hybrid inflation model can generally produce a
condition of Ecm > M0 , where Ecm is the parton-parton center-of-mass required abundance of primordial BH remnants for them to
energy which is proportional to the TeV energy scale. be the main source of the dark matter (Linde 2000).
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