String thermalization at a black hole horizon
Feb 28, 1994
14 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 50 (1994) 2725-2730
e-Print:
- hep-th/9402125 [hep-th]
Report number:
- NSF-ITP-94-17,
- SU-ITP-94-4
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Abstract:
Susskind has recently shown that a relativistic string approaching the event horizon of a black hole spreads in both the transverse and longitudinal directions in the reference frame of an outside observer. The transverse spreading can be described as a branching diffusion of wee string bits. This stochastic process provides a mechanism for thermalizing the quantum state of the string as it spreads across the stretched horizon.- astrophysics: string
- correlation function
- black hole
- boundary condition
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