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Ideal active-area half-mass cutoff interval
Conditional fixed-asymptotic-reference ideal emitter calculation with eta=1 and a positive half-mass cutoff. The effective area is not a material null-horizon surface, the exported entropy is coarse Gibbs/ray entropy, and the example is not an observation or a duration prediction for an actual evaporating black hole.
Statement
Assume and the conditional model conclusion of Conditional ideal Planck emission and entropy accounting. Choose and for , with as in that theorem. Define the model's algebraic zero-mass time scale
The stipulated model stops earlier, at
when its mass parameter first reaches . It exports energy joules. Its stationary-family entropy drop, coarse photon entropy export, and total coarse entropy gain are respectively
For any , if , then the model's maximum diagnostic on the closed interval , including its positive cutoff endpoint, satisfies . This is an exact ideal-model calculation, not a measured evaporation time or an error estimate for a gravitational backreaction solution.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , the conditional model conclusion of Conditional ideal Planck emission and entropy accounting, , and the choices , .
Conditional ideal Planck emission and entropy accounting: for the fixed-reference model, , , energy export is , , and . These are conditional on the theorem's stated model and .
The thought experiment selects and ; remains an arbitrary positive mass parameter, not a measured value.
The Axiom of Countable Choice (): is the exact countable-choice principle; no full Axiom of Choice is used.
Proof
Given: The model formulas of [F1] and the exact parameter choices [A1].
With , [F1] gives . Hence , and
The cutoff remains positive, , so the model does not reach its algebraic zero-mass time.
The energy export in [F1] is . Substituting [A1] gives joules.
By [F1], on the selected branch, with an unfixed constant . Subtracting its values at and cancels and gives . The entropy export is , and the total gain is .
The maximum diagnostic occurs at , so [F1] gives
The displayed lower bound on is equivalent, after multiplication by the positive , to . This remains an internal diagnostic for the stipulated ODE, not a comparison with a coupled spacetime solution.
Depends on
Dependency tree · 2 levels
Sources
- Robert M. Wald, The Thermodynamics of Black Holes, Living Reviews in Relativity 4 (2001), 6
- Pietro Benetti Genolini, Introduction to black hole thermodynamics, lecture notes for the Roberto Salmeron School in Mathematical Physics (2025), arXiv:2512.24929v1
- Mehran Kardar, MIT OpenCourseWare 8.333 Statistical Mechanics I, Lecture 20
- University of Mississippi PHY 727 course notes, Lecture 18: The Photon Gas