TY  - JOUR
AU  - Navarro-Salas, J.
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024//
TI  - Black holes, conformal symmetry, and fundamental fields
T2  - Class. Quantum Gravity
JO  - Classical and Quantum Gravity
SP  - 085003
EP  - 14pp
VL  - 41
IS  - 8
PB  - IOP Publishing Ltd
KW  - black holes
KW  - horizons
KW  - singularities
KW  - conformal symmetry
KW  - quantum fields
KW  - Standard Model
AB  - Cosmic censorship protects the outside world from black hole singularities and paves the way for assigning entropy to gravity at the event horizons. We point out a tension between cosmic censorship and the quantum backreacted geometry of Schwarzschild black holes, induced by vacuum polarization and driven by the conformal anomaly. A similar tension appears for the Weyl curvature hypothesis at the Big Bang singularity. We argue that the requirement of exact conformal symmetry resolves both conflicts and has major implications for constraining the set of fundamental constituents of the Standard Model.
SN  - 0264-9381
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13201
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ad3081
DO  - 10.1088/1361-6382/ad3081
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:001187435100001
ID  - Navarro-Salas2024
ER  -