1998/08/11 by G. L. Alberghi, R. Casadio, Roberto Casadio +3 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/16/1/010
published as Class.Quant.Grav.16:131-147,1999 · 20 pages, 1 eps figure. Problem with figure fixed
arxiv created 1998/08/11 · openalex publication_date 1999/01/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
The semiclassical collapse, including lowest-order back-reaction, of a thin shell of self-gravitating quantized matter is illustrated. The conditions for which self-gravitating matter forms a thin shell are first discussed and an effective Lagrangian for such matter is obtained. The matter-gravity system is then quantized, the semiclassical limit for gravitation is taken and the method of adiabatic invariants is applied to the resulting time-dependent matter Hamiltonian. The governing equations are integrated numerically, for suitable initial conditions, in order to illustrate the effect of back-reaction, due to the creation of matter, in slowing down the collapse near the horizon.