Black Hole Decay and Quantum Instantons
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2010-03-02 v2
Abstract
We study the analytic structure of the S-matrix which is obtained from the reduced Wheeler-DeWitt wave function describing spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of massless scalar fields. The complex simple poles in the S-matrix lead to the wave functions that satisfy the same boundary condition as quasi-normal modes of a black hole, and correspond to the bounded states of the Euclidean Wheeler-DeWitt equation. These wave function are interpreted as quantum instantons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0003047,
title = {Black Hole Decay and Quantum Instantons},
author = {Donsu Bak and Sang Pyo Kim and Sung Ku Kim and Kwang-Sup Soh and Jae Hyung Yee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0003047},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
RevTex, 7 pages, no figure; The wave functions of gr-qc/9912115 are newly interpreted as quantum instantons describing a black hole decay. Replaced by the version to be published in Phys. Rev. D, in which the boundary condition on the apparent horizon is clarified