Published May 15, 1992 | Version v1
Journal article

Are horned particles the end point of Hawking evaporation?

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855-0849 (United States)

Description

We investigate the proposal by Callan, Giddings, Harvey, and Strominger (CGHS) that two-dimensional quantum fluctuations can eliminate the singularities and horizons formed by matter collapsing on the nonsingular extremal black hole of dilaton gravity. We argue that this scenario could in principle resolve all of the paradoxes connected with Hawking evaporation of black holes. However, we show that the generic solution of the model of CGHS is singular. We propose modifications of their model which may allow the scenario to be realized in a consistent manner

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
45
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 3607-3616.
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ