SPACE–TIME FOAM, CASIMIR ENERGY AND BLACK HOLE PAIR CREATION

1998/01/14 by Remo Garattini
Physics and Astronomy · #Black hole (networking) #Casimir effect #Casimir pressure #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum mechanics #Space (punctuation) #Space time #Spacetime #Theoretical physics #Vacuum energy #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217732398000206

published as Mod.Phys.Lett. A13 (1998) 159-164 · Revtex 3.0, 9 pages, to appear in Mod. Phys. Lett. A

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Abstract

We conjecture that the neutral black hole pair production is related to the vacuum fluctuation of pure gravity via the Casimir-like energy. Implications on the foam-like structure of space–time are discussed.

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