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Gravitational Effects of Quantum Fields in the Interior of a Cylindrical Black Hole

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

The gravitational back-reaction is calculated for the conformally invariant scalar field within a black cosmic string interior with cosmological constant. Using the perturbed metric, the gravitational effects of the quantum field are calculated. It is found that the perturbations initially strengthen the singularity. This effect is similar to the case of spherical symmetry (without cosmological constant). This indicates that the behaviour of quantum effects may be universal and not dependent on the geometry of the spacetime nor the presence of a non-zero cosmological constant.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9811029,
  title  = {Gravitational Effects of Quantum Fields in the Interior of a Cylindrical Black Hole},
  author = {A. DeBenedictis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9811029},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

13 pages, 1 figure, uses AMS package. D.E. solution corrected. Some qualitative results are changed