PAIR PRODUCTION OF BLACK-HOLES ON COSMIC STRINGS

Authors
HAWKING SW ROSS SF
Citation
Sw. Hawking et Sf. Ross, PAIR PRODUCTION OF BLACK-HOLES ON COSMIC STRINGS, Physical review letters, 75(19), 1995, pp. 3382-3385
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
75
Issue
19
Year of publication
1995
Pages
3382 - 3385
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1995)75:19<3382:PPOBOC>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
We discuss the pair creation of black holes by the breaking of a cosmi c string. We obtain an instanton describing this process from the C me tric, and calculate its probability. This is very low for the strings that have been suggested for galaxy formation.