Quantum resolution of the Schwarzschild singularity
Abstract
We revisit the Schwarzschild singularity in a semiclassical setting where the background geometry is classical and quantum effects enter through Bohmian (quantal) trajectories associated with a Klein Gordon wave packet. Using the Madelung-Bohm decomposition of the Klein Gordon wavefunction, we show that the quantum-modified motion is equivalent to geodesic motion in an effective metric conformally related to Schwarzschild, with a conformal factor fixed by the wavefunction amplitude. Solving the wavefunction equation near determines this factor and yields finite curvature invariants, in suitable coordinates the interior extends smoothly and the effective spacetime is geodesically complete. This suggests that quantum dynamics on a fixed classical background can regularize the Schwarzschild singularity without a full theory of quantum gravity.
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@article{arxiv.2605.13508,
title = {Quantum resolution of the Schwarzschild singularity},
author = {Vishnulal Cheriyodathillathu and Tanmay Patil and Saurya Das and Soumen Basak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.13508},
year = {2026}
}
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7 pages