Looking inside a black hole

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/8/082001zbMATH Open1292.83036arXiv1309.4125OpenAlexW1996938564WikidataQ60721050 ScholiaQ60721050MaRDI QIDQ5419600FDOQ5419600

Authors: Alexander R. H. Smith, Robert B. Mann 

Publication date: 10 June 2014

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The cosmic censorship conjecture posits that singularities forming to the future of a regular Cauchy surface are hidden by an event horizon. Consequently any topological structures will ultimately collapse within the horizon of a set of black holes and so no observer can actively probe them classically. We consider here a quantum analog of this problem, in which we compare the transition rates of an Unruh-DeWitt detector placed outside the horizon of an eternal BTZ black hole and its associated geon counterpart. We find the transition rates differ, with the latter being time-dependent, implying that we are indeed able to probe the structure of the singularity from outside the Killing horizon.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4125

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zbMATH Keywords

black holegeneral relativityquantum field theorycosmic censorship conjectureUnruh-DeWitt detectorgeon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65)

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