Nonperturbative quantum correction to the Reissner-Nordström spacetime with running Newton’s constant

Abstract

We study the consequences of the running Newton's constant on several key aspects of spherically symmetric charged black holes by performing a renormalization group improvement of the classical Reissner-Nordstr\"om metric within the framework of the Einstein-Hilbert truncation in quantum Einstein gravity. In particular, we determine that the event horizon surfaces are stable except for the extremal case and we corroborate the appearance of a new extremality condition at the Planck scale that contributes to hints about the possible existence of a final stage after the black hole evaporation process. We find explicit expressions for the area and surface gravity of the event horizon and we show the existence of an exact form $dS$ with the surface gravity as integrating factor, in contrast to a previous no-go result for axially symmetric spacetimes with null charge. As a consequence, we are able to derive a formula for the state function $S$ as the sum of the area of the classical event horizon plus a quantum correction linear in $\ensuremath{\hbar}$ and logarithmic in the classical area, in accordance with other approaches. We finally calculate an explicit formula for the Komar mass at the event horizon, and we compare it with the total mass at infinity for a wide domain of values of the black hole parameters $M$, $Q$ and $\overline{w}$, showing a loss of mass which can be interpreted as a consequence of the antiscreening effect of the gravitational field between the event horizon and infinity.