Evaporation of a two-dimensional charged black hole

Abstract

We construct a dilatonic two-dimensional model of a charged black hole. The classical solution is a static charged black hole, characterized by two parameters, $m$ and $q$, representing the black hole's mass and charge. Then we study the semiclassical effects, and calculate the evaporation rate of both $m$ and $q$, as a function of these two quantities. Analyzing this dynamical system, we find two qualitatively different regimes, depending on the electromagnetic coupling constant $g_{A}$. If the latter is greater than a certain critical value, the charge-to-mass ratio decays to zero upon evaporation. On the other hand, for $g_{A}$ smaller than the critical value, the charge-to-mass ratio approaches a non-zero constant that depends on $g_{A}$ but not on the initial values of $m$ and $q$.