QUANTUM PROBES OF SPACETIME SINGULARITIES

被引:143
作者
HOROWITZ, GT
MAROLF, D
机构
[1] Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1995年 / 52卷 / 10期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.52.5670
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
It is shown that there are static spacetimes with timelike curvature singularities which appear completely nonsingular when probed with quantum test particles. Examples include extreme dilatonic black holes and the fundamental string solution. In these spacetimes, the dynamics of quantum particles is well defined and uniquely determined.
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页码:5670 / 5675
页数:6
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