Quantum completeness of black holes

25 November 2019
25 November 2019
Contatti: 
Staff Dipartimento di Matematica

Università degli Studi Trento
38123 Povo (TN)
Tel +39 04 61/281508-1625-1701-3898-1980.
dept.math [at] unitn.it

Venue: Povo Zero, via Sommarive 14 (Povo)  Seminar Room "-1"
At: 15:00

Speaker:

  • Marc Schneider (Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, Pennsylvania State University)

Abstract:

We adapt the notion of quantum-mechanical completeness to situations where the only adequate description is in terms of quantum field theory in curved space-times. It is then shown that the Schwarzschild space-time, although geodesically incomplete, is complete with respect to quantum field theory. We show that quantum fields enjoy a contractive evolution near the geometrical singularity and ultimately become free.

Contact person: Valter Moretti