Uncertainty principle on a world crystal: Absence of black hole remnants?

Abstract

We study uncertainty relations as formulated in a crystal-like universe, whose lattice spacing is of order of Planck length. For Planck energies, the uncertainty relation for position and momenta has a lower bound equal to zero. Connections of this result with double special relativity, and with't Hooft's deterministic quantization proposal, are briefly pointed out. We then apply our formulae to micro black holes, and we derive a new mass-temperature relation for Schwarzschild (micro) black holes. In contrast to standard results based on Heisenberg and stringy uncertainty relations, we obtain both a finite Hawking's temperature and a zero rest-mass remnant at the end of the micro black hole evaporation.