Quantum probes of spacetime singularities
- 15 November 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 52 (10) , 5670-5675
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.52.5670
Abstract
It is shown that there are static spacetimes with timelike curvature singularities which appear completely nonsingular when probed with quantum test particles. Examples include exteme dilatonic black holes and the fundamental string solution. In these spacetimes, the dynamics of quantum particles is well defined and uniquely determined.Keywords
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