Splitting of an extremal Reissner-Nordström throat via quantum tunneling
- 15 August 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 46 (4) , 1560-1565
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.46.1560
Abstract
The interior near the horizon of an extremal Reissner-Nordström black hole is taken as an initial state for quantum-mechanical tunneling. An instanton is presented that connects this state with a final state describing the presence of several horizons. This is interpreted as a WKB description of fluctuations due to a splitting and recombination of the throat into several components.Keywords
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