Authors
Citation
A. Hosoya, QUANTUM SMEARING OF SPACETIME SINGULARITY, Classical and quantum gravity, 12(12), 1995, pp. 2967-2975
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
02649381
Volume
12
Issue
12
Year of publication
1995
Pages
2967 - 2975
Database
ISI
SICI code
0264-9381(1995)12:12<2967:QSOSS>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
We propose a quantum mechanical generalization of the affine length of
a curve which gives a criterion of whether a classical singularity is
smeared out by a quantum fluctuation of the spacetime geometry. An ex
plicit example is demonstrated in the (2 + 1)-dimensional black-hole m
odel.