The irreversible thermodynamics of black holes.
Abstract
The action of quantum fluctuations of the gravitational field may be regarded as the origin of the dissipative processes associated with Hawking radiation. In this picture the black hole possesses internal coherence by virtue of the localization of its mass. The cumulative effect of the quantum fluctuations in the geometry is that this coherence is corrupted and the mass is sapped away.
- Publication:
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General Relativity and Gravitation
- Pub Date:
- March 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00759372
- Bibcode:
- 1978GReGr...9..183C
- Keywords:
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- Black Holes (Astronomy);
- Irreversible Processes;
- Thermodynamics;
- Energy Absorption;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Energy Levels;
- Fluctuation Theory;
- Fourier Transformation;
- Gravitational Fields;
- Gravitational Waves;
- Quantum Mechanics;
- Astrophysics;
- Black Holes:Thermodynamics