Mass inflation: The Semiclassical regime
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- Phys.Rev.Lett. 70 (1993) 13-16
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We examine the possible influence of semiclassical effects on the structure of spacetime in the vicintiy of a black-hole Cauchy horizon. While the classical picture is that of a weak mass-inflation singularity (a null singularity characterized by the unbounded increase of the black-hole internal mass function), we suggest that quantum effects may produce either (i) a stronger, spacelike singularity, or (ii) a regular spacetime, in the sense that curvature would nowhere increase beyond Planckian.- space-time
- black hole
- inflation
- approximation: semiclassical
- field theory: conformal
- tensor: energy-momentum
- quantization: effect
- boundary condition
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