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Quantum black holes: the event horizon as a fuzzy sphere

Brian P. Dolan1

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Modeling the event horizon of a black hole by a fuzzy sphere leads us to modify some suggestions in the literature concerning black hole mass spectra. We derive a formula for the mass spectrum of quantum black holes in terms of four integers which define the area, angular momentum, electric and magnetic charge of the black hole. Although the event horizon becomes a commutative sphere in the classical limit a vestige of the quantum theory still persists in that the event horizon stereographically projects onto the non-commutative plane. We also suggest how the classical bounds on extremal black holes might be modified in the quantum theory.


 
An erratum page was received on 30 August 2005 and added to the end of the published paper on 15 September 2005.
Keywords

Models of Quantum Gravity

Non-Commutative Geometry

PACS

04.70.Dy Quantum aspects of black holes, evaporation, thermodynamics

04.60.-m Quantum gravity

02.40.Gh Noncommutative geometry

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Gravitation and cosmology

Dates

Issue 02 (February 2005)

Received 15 October 2004, accepted for publication 2 February 2005

Published 15 February 2005



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