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Quantum creation of a black hole by tunneling in scalar field collapse

Dongsu Bak1,*, Sang Pyo Kim2, Sung-Ku Kim3, Kwang Sup Soh4, and Jae Hyung Yee5

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Seoul, Seoul 130-743, Korea
  • 2Department of Physics, Kunsan National University, Kunsan 573-701, Korea
  • 3Department of Physics, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul 120-750, Korea
  • 4Department of Physics Education, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
  • 5Department of Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea

  • *Electronic address: dsbak@mach.uos.ac.kr

Phys. Rev. D 60, 064005 – Published 11 August, 1999

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.60.064005

Abstract

The continuously self-similar solution of the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a scalar field is studied to investigate quantum-mechanical black-hole formation by tunneling in the subcritical case, where, classically, the collapse does not produce a black hole.

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