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Towards black-hole singularity-resolution in the Lorentzian gravitational path integral

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-12-17 v1

Abstract

Quantum Gravity is expected to resolve the singularities of classical General Relativity. Based on destructive interference of singular spacetime-configurations in the path integral, we find that higher-order curvature terms may allow to resolve black-hole singularities both in the spherically symmetric and axisymmetric case. In contrast, the Einstein action does not provide a dynamical mechanism for singularity-resolution through destructive interference of these configurations.

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@article{arxiv.2012.08570,
  title  = {Towards black-hole singularity-resolution in the Lorentzian gravitational path integral},
  author = {Johanna N. Borissova and Astrid Eichhorn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.08570},
  year   = {2020}
}

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18 pages plus references, 4 figures

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