Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1992-06-19
Phys.Lett.B289:25-34,1992
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
16 pages, CERN-TH.6534/92, (correction of a minor typographical error on page 12)
Scientific paper
10.1016/0370-2693(92)91357-F
We interpret Minkowski black holes as world-sheet {\it spikes } which are related by world-sheet { \it duality} to {\it vortices } that correspond to Euclidean black holes. These world-sheet defects induce defects in the gauge fields of the corresponding coset Wess-Zumino descriptions of spherically-symmetric black holes. The low-temperature target space-time foam is a Minkowski black hole (spike) plasma with confined Euclidean black holes (vortices). The high-temperature phase is a {\it dense} vortex plasma described by a topological gauge field theory on the world-sheet, which possesses enhanced symmetry as in the target space-time singularity at the core of a black hole. Quantum decay via higher-genus effects induces a back-reaction which causes a Minkowski black hole to lose mass until it is indistinguishable from intrinsic fluctuations in the space-time foam.
Ellis John
Mavromatos Nick E.
Nanopoulos Dimitri V.
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