Semiclassical Effects in Black Hole Interiors

Authors

William A. Hiscock
Shane L. Larson, Utah State UniversityFollow
Paul R. Anderson

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Physical Review D

Volume

56

Issue

6

Publication Date

1997

First Page

3571

Last Page

3581

Arxiv Identifier

arXiv:gr-qc/9701004v1

Abstract

First-order semiclassical perturbations to the Schwarzschild black hole geometry are studied within the black hole interior. The source of the perturbations is taken to be the vacuum stress-energy of quantized scalar, spinor, and vector fields, evaluated using analytic approximations developed by Page and others (for massless fields) and the DeWitt-Schwinger approximation (for massive fields). Viewing the interior as an anisotropic collapsing cosmology, we find that minimally or conformally coupled scalar fields, and spinor fields, decrease the anisotropy as the singularity is approached, while vector fields increase the anisotropy. In addition, we find that for massless fields of all spins, the massive conformally coupled scalar field, and massive vector fields, the metric perturbations initially strengthen the singularity, while for minimally coupled massive scalar and spinor fields the metric perturbations tend to initially slow the growth of curvature.

Comments

Published by the American Physical Society in Physical Review D. Publisher PDF available through remote link.

Author e-print is deposited in arXiv.org.

Recommended Citation

Hiscock, W. A., Larson, S. L., & Anderson, P. R. (1997). Semiclassical effects in black hole interiors. Physical Review D, 56(6), 3571.