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Quantum Structure of Space Near a Black Hole Horizon

Gabor Kunstatter
Abstract: 

I will describe a midi-superspace quantization scheme for generic single horizon black holes in which only the spatial diffeomorphisms are fixed. The remaining Hamiltonian constraint is remarkably simple, and in the vacuum case yields an infinite set of decoupled eigenvalue equations: one at each spatial point. The corresponding operator at each point is the product of the outgoing and ingoing null convergences, and describes the scale invariant quantum mechanics of a particle moving in an attractive $1/X^2$ potential. The variable $X$ that is analoguous to particle position is the square root of the conformal mode of the metric. The theory is quantized via Bohr quantization, which by construction turns the Hamiltonian constraint eigenvalue equation into a finite difference equation. The resulting spectrum gives rise to a discrete spatial topology exterior to the horizon. The spectrum approaches the continuum in the asymptotic region.

Date: 
Monday, 6 November, 2006 - 15:30
Seminar Location: 
Room V-221, Pavillon Roger Gaudry

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