Quantum probes of spacetime singularities

Gary T. Horowitz and Donald Marolf
Phys. Rev. D 52, 5670 – Published 15 November 1995
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Abstract

It is shown that there are static spacetimes with timelike curvature singularities which appear completely nonsingular when probed with quantum test particles. Examples include exteme dilatonic black holes and the fundamental string solution. In these spacetimes, the dynamics of quantum particles is well defined and uniquely determined.

  • Received 20 April 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.52.5670

©1995 American Physical Society

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Gary T. Horowitz and Donald Marolf

  • Physics Department, The University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106

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Vol. 52, Iss. 10 — 15 November 1995

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