Artigo Revisado por pares

Strings from Gravity

1987; IOP Publishing; Volume: T15; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/0031-8949/1987/t15/019

ISSN

1402-4896

Autores

Gerard ’t Hooft,

Tópico(s)

Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect

Resumo

The quantum properties of black holes are compared with those of elementary and composite particles. As argued before by this author, it is desirable to search for a theory of black holes in which quantum mechanical "information" is not drained away by the horizon, but such a theory requires a drastically new approach in formulating general coordinate transformations with horizons in a quantum theory. It is subsequently shown that a closed string with string tension T = 1/8πG reproduces in a remarkable way the horizon fluctuations so that a new geometric interpretation of strings is suggested.

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