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Vacuum polarization and the black hole singularity

W G Anderson, P R Brady and R Camporesi

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In order to investigate the effects of vacuum polarization on mass inflation singularities, the authors study a simple toy model of a charged black hole with cross flowing radial null dust which is homogeneous in the black hole interior. In the region r2<<e2 they find an approximate analytic solution to the classical field equations. The renormalized stress-energy tensor, for conformally coupled fields, is evaluated on this background and they find the vacuum polarization backreaction corrections to the mass function m(r). Asymptotic analysis of the semiclassical mass function shows that the mass inflation singularity is much stronger in the presence of vacuum polarization than in the classical case.


PACS

04.70.-s Physics of black holes

04.20.-q Classical general relativity

MSC

83C57 Black holes

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Dates

Issue 3 (March 1993)



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