Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1994-10-05
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
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Scientific paper
The definition of matter states on spacelike hypersurfaces of a 1+1 dimensional black hole spacetime is considered. Because of small quantum fluctuations in the mass of the black hole, the usual approximation of treating the gravitational field as a classical background on which matter is quantized, breaks down near the black hole horizon. On any hypersurface that captures both infalling matter near the horizon and Hawking radiation, a semiclassical calculation is inconsistent. An estimate of the size of correlations between the matter and gravity states shows that they are so strong that a fluctuation in the black hole mass of order exp[-M/M_{Planck}] produces a macroscopic change in the matter state. (Talk given at the 7th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on work in collaboration with E. Keski-Vakkuri, G. Lifschytz and S. Mathur.)
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