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Quantum Transfiguration of Kruskal Black Holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-12-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present a new effective description of macroscopic Kruskal black holes that incorporates corrections due to quantum geometry effects of loop quantum gravity. It encompasses both the `interior' region that contains classical singularities and the `exterior' asymptotic region. Singularities are naturally resolved by the quantum geometry effects of loop quantum gravity, and the resulting quantum extension of the full Kruskal space-time is free of all the known limitations of previous investigations [1-11] of the Schwarzschild interior. We compare and contrast our results with these investigations and also with the expectations based on the AdS/CFT duality [12].

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@article{arxiv.1806.00648,
  title  = {Quantum Transfiguration of Kruskal Black Holes},
  author = {Abhay Ashtekar and Javier Olmedo and Parampreet Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.00648},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

5 pages, 1 figure, minor changes, version to appear in PRL