String Thermalization at a Black Hole Horizon
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- 22 February 1994
Abstract
Susskind has recently shown that a relativistic string approaching the event horizon of a black hole spreads in both the transverse and longitudinal directions in the reference frame of an outside observer. The transverse spreading can be described as a branching diffusion of wee string bits. This stochastic process provides a mechanism for thermalizing the quantum state of the string as it spreads across the stretched horizon.Keywords
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- Version 1, 1994-02-22, ArXiv
- Published version: Physical Review D, 50 (4), 2725.
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