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Effects of quantized fields on the spacetime geometries of static spherically symmetric black holes

Paul R. Anderson·Mathew Binkley·Hector Calderon·William A. Hiscock·Emil Mottola·Ruslan Vaulin
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Analytic approximations for the stress-energy of quantized fields in the Hartle-Hawking state in static black hole spacetimes predict divergences on the event horizon of the black hole for a number of important cases. Such divergences, if real, could substantially alter the spacetime geometry near the event horizon, possibly preventing the black hole from existing. The results of three investigations of these types of effects are presented. The first involves a new analytic approximation for conformally invariant fields in Reissner-Nordstrom spacetimes which is finite on the horizon. The second focuses on the stress-energy of massless scalar fields in Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes. The third focuses on the stress-energy of massless scalar fields in zero temperature black hole geometries that could be solutions to the semiclassical backreaction equations near the event horizon of the black hole.

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Paul R. Anderson, Mathew Binkley, Hector Calderon, William A. Hiscock, Emil Mottola, Ruslan Vaulin. 2007-09-27. Effects of quantized fields on the spacetime geometries of static spherically symmetric black holes. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812834300_0178

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