Thermal duality and gravitational collapse
Journal article
Hewitt, M. 2015. Thermal duality and gravitational collapse. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 631 (1). https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/631/1/012076
Authors | Hewitt, M. |
---|---|
Abstract | Thermal duality is a relationship between the behaviour of het-erotic string models of the E(8)xE(8) or SO(32) types at inversely related temperatures, a variant of T duality in the Euclidean regime. This duality would have consequences for the nature of the Hagedorn transition in these string models. We propose that the vacuum admits a family of deformations in situations where there are closed surfaces of constant area but high radial acceleration (a string regularized ver-sion of a Penrose trapped surface), such as would be formed in situ-ations of extreme gravitational collapse. This would allow a radical resolution of the firewall paradox by allowing quantum effects to sig-nificantly modify the spacetime geometry around a collapsed object. A string bremsstrahlung process would convert the kinetic energy of infalling matter in extreme gravitational collapse to form a region of the deformed vacuum, which would be equivalent to forming a high temperature string phase. A heuristic criterion for the conversion pro-cess is presented, relating Newtonian gravity to the string tension, suggesting an upper limit to the strength of the gravitational interac-tion. This conversion process might have observable consequences for charged particles falling into a rotating collapsed object by producing high energy particles via a variant of the Penrose process. |
Year | 2015 |
Journal | Journal of Physics: Conference Series |
Journal citation | 631 (1) |
Publisher | IOP Publishing |
ISSN | 1742-6596 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/631/1/012076 |
Related URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/328215/page/4 |
Publication dates | |
30 Jul 2015 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 02 Apr 2015 |
Accepted | 17 Feb 2015 |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Output status | Published |
https://repository.canterbury.ac.uk/item/8745z/thermal-duality-and-gravitational-collapse
Download files
65
total views47
total downloads0
views this month0
downloads this month