Gabriel Horn Black Hole Model in Finsler Space
The classical Einstein field theory with only spacetime curvature gives the existence of singularities whereas the Einstein–Cartan theory with both curvature and torsion can predict the cessation of gravitational collapse and the absence of singularities. Notice that the two opposite conclusions in the framework of Riemannian geometry arise merely from incorporating more geometric properties of spacetime or not. In order to resolve the puzzles on black hole singularities and other paradoxes, we propose a novel black hole model with a “G-horn” topological structure in the framework of Finsler geometry—more general than Riemannian geometry. By developing a Cartan torsion-decomposing method, it is the first time to find the elegant competition mechanism between gravity of curvature and the resultant inertial forces of “centrifugal force ± Coriolis force” of torsion during gravitational collapse and bounce.
Finsler spacetime can encode the degrees of spatial curvature, torsion and also directional asymmetry which can effectively express the abrupt reversal properties of its velocity field during gravitational bounce. The Finsler–Randers metric function on the tangent bundle is employed,
where the first term on the right-hand side is the Riemann term and the second is the Finsler term. Obviously, the Finsler metric tensor depends on both position
r and velocity
y,
which is an essential difference from Riemannian geometry. The first-order tensor
as a vector potential is mathematically isomorphic to the magnetic vector potential in electromagnetism. According to the Gauss’s law, we can obtain its
r-component as
with spin charge
and
. Here
k is the anisotropy factor and
is the Einstein’s cosmological constant. After integration
with respect to
r, the generating line equation of the hyperboloid is obtained as
. The torsion is derived from the Cartan connection within a spin-adapted moving coordinate frame. Together with the Finsler-Randers metric, the Cartan torsion determines the effective potential barrier
Veff and the geometric potential barrier
Vgeom of the G-horn, respectively.
When the horizon radius
r is sufficiently small, the variation degree of the geometric potential barrier
Vgeom is much greater than that of the gravitational potential
Vgrav of curvature. Mathematically, it can be proved that after introducing the
β term of Eq.(1), the spherically symmetric
SO(3) group of system is broken to the
SO(2) group, and the latter is isomorphic to the axial symmetry group
U(1). Let
r be the sphere in 3D space and
z the proper time as shown in
Figure 1. In the Painleve–Gullstrand (PG) coordinate system, we obtain an exact metric,
From the hyperbola
ds2 to the hyperbolic geometric space of strong gravitational field, the topological structure of G-horn hyperboloid emerges naturally during gravitational collapse.
The elimination of physical singularities is verified by global geodesic completeness, which requires two conditions: 1) the background manifold is an inextendible smooth manifold; and 2) no geodesic terminates at any point or along the manifold’s extendible boundary. As shown in the supplementary materials, G-horn topological structure with finite volume and infinite inner surface area [
11], can represent definitely an inextendible smooth background manifold, which constitutes a precondition for global geodesic completeness. The horizon represented by G-horn’s inner surface can continue to smoothly extend downward along the hyperbolic generating line of horn. Notice that the hyperbolic G-horn with
r=
kQs/
z has never the properties of becoming a straight-line pipe or its two generating lines intersecting at a single point at the bottom. This implies that the curvature of any a point on G-horn’s inner surface is neither zero nor infinite, so is gravity. Its infinite inner area shows that throughout gravitational collapse, the G-horn spacetime can ensure the completeness of geodesics to avoid them terminating at any a singularity or boundary. If rotation existing, the torsion determined by Cartan connection can counteract gravitational collapse, and matter moving along with the horn’s inner area cannot fall into the indefinite bottom. Next, we show that matter entering this type of black holes seems being “choked” in the neck of the G-horn and accumulating as a regular “hollow” inner surface core in
Figure 1.
Since this G-horn black hole model incorporates both orbital angular momentum and spin angular momentum within the Finslerian framework, it inevitably exhibits the frame-dragging effects such that geodesics characterize the gravitational collapse process through a helical precession pattern. The blue line
AO denotes the frame-dragging radius
Rdrag at point
A, which consists of two dragging effects: 1) dragging of center
o, corresponding to the intersection point
O of the tangent line with the central axis
z; 2) dragging of hyperbolic spiral phase, corresponding to the change rate of angular velocity. Analogous to the two-dimensional cylinder
R×
S1, which is generated by circles (
S1) swept along the longitudinal direction (
R) with their centers on the rotation axis, our dragged center
O on the rotation axis represents the asymptotic center of the hyperbolic-rotation isometries, and the dragged radius
Rdrag characterizes the rotation invariance of the pseudo-metric
ds2. Crucially, neither
O nor
Rdrag is fixed. This constitutes the geometric rationale for abandoning spherical symmetry in the present work. During gravitational collapse, the dragged radius
Rdrag becomes longer (see,
), and the dragged center
O may go far away from the centers of the outer or inner horizon as
r approaching to a mathematical singularity
r=0. It is clear in
Figure 1 that
there is no real physical center point r=0
for the “hollow” accumulating core where geodesics can touch. In addition, the dragged center
O also needs not coincide with the accumulating matter center at the equilibrium location
req or the ones of outer horizon at
rmax and inner horizon at
rmin. Then, we establish the G-horn topological mappings of
for non-rotation black holes, and
with
and
for rotating black holes. If rotation is not considered (i.e.,
), a spherical horizon of non-rotation black hole similar to the spherical Schwarzschild solution emerges because of
if the horizon radius
r is enough large. But, as
r tends to zero (Schwarzschild singularity), the dragged center
O with
is dragged to the infinity point although the projected
is always observed on the outer horizon. This differs from the Schwarzschild solution whose mathematical singularity
r=0 and physical singularity have always coincided at the spherical center. The crucial mathematical conclusion can be obtained that due to the property of hyperbolic G-horn that its two generating lines never intersect at a single point at the bottom, the black center point of Schwarzschild solution is actually a tiny “hollow” physical point projected on the outer horizon. In other word, Schwarzschild solution also has no physical singular point.
In supplementary materials, we compute the affine parameter
and the radial Ricci tensor
for radially infalling null geodesics (e.g., photons dropping) with the four-velocity normalization condition
. Due to both the Ricci tensor and the affine parameter diverge, a falling test particle needs infinite affine time to reach the mathematical singularity
r=0. In other words, matter cannot reach the region of
r=0 at all. Combined with the property of matter being choked at the horn neck, a novel mechanism of singularity avoidance can be established where the accumulating matter center is always prevented from hitting or touching the mathematical singularity
r=0. Therefore, without any gravitational catastrophe, our G-horn model can be used to further discuss Weinberg’s asymptotically safe gravity [
20]. Besides, if the aforementioned vectoral potential
is replaced with the electromagnetic vectoral potential, our model can describe the Reissner-Nordström radiating black holes and obtain the result of Ref.[
7]: a “regular core” rather than a singularity.
The Kerr black hole [
5,
21] is an exact solution describing rotating black holes and is one of the most valuable models in general relativity. As shown in Fig.(b), if the dynamical trajectory of a test particle entering the rotating G-horn space (
) is projected onto its outer horizon, the projected results look like the well-known Kerr ring. But, some essential differences of our model from Kerr ring include, 1) the traditional concept of only outer horizon with observability becomes the whole hollow accumulating core projected on outer horizon as indistinguishable superposition states; 2) there is only one event horizon in our model although the boundaries
rmax and
rmin may refer to the analogies
of outer and inner horizons, respectively; 3) the projected results in the outer horizon as a “ring” seem like the geodesic away from the inner surface of the horn (incomplete), but all geodesics actually lie on the G-horn inner surface and always remain completeness throughout gravitational collapse. This shows an important fact that
the hollow accumulating core in the G-horn model is regular because it is neither a Schwarzschild singularity point nor a Kerr singularity ring.
Next, we analyze whether matter falling into this black hole will undergo infinite descent, or will be “choked” at the hyperboloid of the G-horn neck, and what the corresponding “choked” state is. In Finsler geometry, the fundamental invariants include the Cartan tensor, which measures the change rate of metric along the fiber direction, and is essentially the velocity-dependent Finsler torsion. Based on the principle of least action. the dynamical trajectory of a test particle is derived from From its Euler–Lagrange equation,
where the antisymmetric term inside the parentheses on the right-hand side of Eq. (4) is from Cartan connection. By decomposed the Finsler tangent bundle into the horizontal and vertical subbundles,
TM=
HM⊕
VM, the Cartan connection carries two kinds of independent torsions: the vertical Cartan torsion that gives the vertical component of Coriolis force as spin-flip trigger, and the translational torsion resulting in the geometric centrifugal force and the horizontal component of Coriolis force. As shown in supplementary materials, the covariances of decomposing gravity, centrifugal force and Coriolis force is preserved, and their vectoral sum as follows,
where
with
is the four-dimensional velocity of the selected observer with zero angular momentum, and
is the Lorentz factor. The first term on the right hand side represents gravity. The term
represents the geometric centrifugal force. The last item can be written as
and defined as the geometric Coriolis force. Based on the geometric structure of the G-horn, it is obvious that the centrifugal force is always used to counteract gravitational collapse. But, for the Coriolis forces, we have
with
,
and
at the critical points of gravitational bounces such that the Coriolis force
coupling with the radial acceleration
changes its sign whereas
keeps its sign unchanged at the critical points. This is because the Randers metric has a non-zero third-order derivative such that this Cartan torsion gives the impulsive torque source for the instantaneous “U-turn” of gravitational rebound, which we call as “
torsion-induced reversal”. Although the existing literature [
22] claims that Coriolis forces may inhibit gravitational collapse, the Coriolis force in our model actually enhances gravitational collapse when a particle falls downward. But, during the gravitational bounce process, the Coriolis force works as antagonist together with the centrifugal force to counteract gravitational collapse. That is, the positive and negative effects of Coriolis force resulting from a spin-adapted moving coordinate frame depend on the abrupt changes of velocity direction. This is the fundamental reason why the “gravitational bounce” problem must be investigated in Finsler space, whereas Riemannian space is not enough.
The reason for a testing particle trapped or “choked” at a certain zone on the inner surface of G-horn neck is a kind of pure geometrodynamic braking, which is related to the sign reversal of the Coriolis force during geodesic fluctuations. We next discuss
the competition mechanism between gravity of curvature and the resultant inertial forces of “centrifugal force ± Coriolis force” of torsion in a Finsler spacetime. The dynamical trajectory of a test particle on this hyperboloid horn is expressed as,
where
,
and
. Based on the potential well of gravity, we can obtain the rebound barrier for a test particle in the neck of the G-horn: the lowest location
zmax , the highest location
zmin and the equilibrium position
zeq as follows:
where
,
,
. Within the interzone [
zmin,
zmax], the particle’s trajectory follows a geodesic fluctuating up and down as a spiral motion on the inner surface of G-horn neck. If the particle’s trajectory is projected onto the
z-axis, it behaves as a typical harmonic oscillator. Due to the damping term in Eq.(6), this
δA is considered as adding a higher-order perturbation to the harmonic oscillator, and breaks time-reversal symmetry. The region of geodesics fluctuations on the inner surface of the local G-horn neck seems like a “trapped surface”, but not being a Penrose’s one [
2] because our geodesics in this extremely dense “regular” core always remain complete without interruption to a singularity.
In what follows, the spin flip of trajectory can be discussed by using the dominant term
in the Hamiltonian,
where
is the radial momentum,
is the geometric vector potential,
is the radial Pauli operator and
is the coupling constant. At
, we have,
where
stands for a small perturbation. Also, the same procedures hold at
zmin.
The creative combination of the G-horn’s hyperbolic structure with Finsler geometry opens a new door to some black hole paradoxes. Notice that the terms inside the braces {} of Eq.(6) represent damping. Interestingly, although angular momentum , we may obtain such that the damped oscillation of Eq.(6) can tune to a simple harmonic vibration near the equilibrium position req. This stabilization mechanism shows that during some energy dissipation processes such as black hole evaporation, not only have no singularities or naked singularities, but also indeed exist black hole remnants where energy is insufficient to radiate out of the outer horizon, continue to gravity collapse, or even bounce. During gravity bounce, although the geodesics fluctuates locally back and forth on the inner surface of the G-horn neck, the spacetime geometry of this black hole is with global geodesic completeness. The simple harmonic periodic trajectory of remnants as the ultimate storage carrier of information is an elegant resolution to the black hole information loss paradox. In summary, the G-horn model is an elegant solution as “geometrodynamic braking” of both gravity collapse to any hidden or naked singularities, and black hole to be completely annihilated itself.