Spacetime singularities in (2 1)-dimensional quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/23/301MaRDI QIDQ4797227zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Eric Minassian

Publication date 3 November 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0203026

zbMATH Keywords

black-hole modelcosmological modelquantum gravityspacetime singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: The effects of spacetime quantization on black hole and big bang/big crunch singularities can be studied using new tools from (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity. I investigate effects of spacetime quantization on singularities of the (2+1)-dimensional BTZ black hole and the (2+1)-dimensional torus universe. Hosoya has considered the BTZ black hole, and using a ``quantum generalized affine parameter (QGAP), has shown that, for some specific paths, quantum effects ``smear the singularity. Using generic gaussian wave functions, I show that both BTZ black hole and the torus universe contain families of paths that still reach the singularities with a finite QGAP, suggesting that singularities persist in quantum gravity. More realistic calculations, using modular invariant wave functions of Carlip and Nelson for the torus universe, further support this conclusion.

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