Covariant path integrals and black holes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The thermal nature of the propagator in a collapsed black-hole spacetime is shown to follow from the non-trivial topology of the configuration space in tortoise coordinates by using the path integral formalism.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9710050,
title = {Covariant path integrals and black holes},
author = {F. Vendrell and M. E. Ortiz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9710050},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, Revtex, 1 figure. To appear in the proceedings of the Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity. (Jerusalem, Israel, June 1997)