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Konkowski, Deborah |
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Thomas M. Helliwell |
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Talk Title |
Quantum Particle Behavior in Classically Singular Space-times |
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Abstract |
A small step towards understanding the presence of singularities in a fully quantum universe is the study of singularities in the presence of quantum fields. In this presentation I will discuss space-times which can be thought of as classically singular but are not quantum mechanically singular in that the spatial portion of the quantum wave operator is not essentially self-adjoint. Spacetimes with all three classes of classical singularity, i.e. scalar curvature, non-scalar curvature and quasi-regular, will be tested. In particular, certain space-times which obey the standard energy conditions but contain strong singularities will be shown to be quantum mechanically non-singular. |
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