Towards an S-matrix description of gravitational collapse
Towards an S-matrix description of gravitational collapse
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引力塌缩的 S 矩阵描述
DOI:
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/049
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发表时间:
2007
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
G. Veneziano
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作者:
D. Amati;M. Ciafaloni;G. Veneziano;G. Veneziano
Extending our previous results on trans-Planckian (Gs >> ) scattering of light particles in quantum string-gravity we present a calculation of the corresponding S-matrix from the region of large impact parameters (b >> G(s)1/2>λs) down to the regime where classical gravitational collapse is expected to occur. By solving the semiclassical equations of a previously introduced effective-action approximation, we find that the perturbative expansion around the leading eikonal result diverges at a critical value b = bc = O(G(s)1/2), signalling the onset of a new (black-hole related?) regime. We then discuss the main features of our explicitly unitary S-matrix—and of the associated effective metric—down to (and in the vicinity of) b = bc, and present some ideas and results on its extension all the way to the b→0 region. We find that for b < bc the physical field solutions are complex-valued and the S-matrix shows additional absorption, related to a new production mechanism. The field solutions themselves are, surprisingly, everywhere regular, suggesting a quantum-tunneling—rather than a singular-geometry—situation.