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Formation and Evaporation of a Naked Singularity in 2D Gravity

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Cenalo Vaz, Louis Witten

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 22 Nov 1993

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The authors' main claim The one loop analysis is credible for a large mass naked singularity and suggests the existence of a weak cosmological censorship that would cause it to explode into radiation upon forming.

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CitationCenalo Vaz, Louis Witten. "Formation and Evaporation of a Naked Singularity in 2D Gravity." arXiv:hep-th/9311133 (1993). https://pith.science/paper/F6DH2NV5
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We describe a classical configuration of conformal matter forming a naked singularity and discuss its subsequent Hawking evaporation within the context of two dimensional dilaton gravity. The one loop analysis is credible for a large mass naked singularity and suggests the existence of a weak cosmological censorship that would cause it to explode into radiation upon forming. (Hardcopies of figures available on request)

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s1 The one loop analysis is credible for a large mass naked singularity and suggests the existence of a weak cosmological censorship that would cause it to explode into radiation upon forming. interpretation 0.59 0.78 0.77 hedged possibility 1.00
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We describe a classical configuration of conformal matter forming a naked singularity and discuss its subsequent Hawking evaporation within the context of two dimensional dilaton gravity. The one loop analysis is credible for a large mass naked singularity and suggests the existence of a weak cosmological censorship that would cause it to explode into radiation upon forming. (Hardcopies of figures available on request)

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  • Two-dimensional gravity provides a simplified framework for studying difficult issues in gravitational theory, such as the quantization of gravity [ref] , gravitational collapse [ref] , and black hole evaporation [ref] ; see [ref] for reviews.

    Kink collisions in a two-dimensional gravity model · Introduction · 0.97

  • Two-dimensional (2D) gravity models allow physicists to study difficult issues like quantum gravity [ref] , gravitational collapse [ref] , black hole physics [ref] , and gauge/gravity duality [ref] , while avoiding technical complexity.

    Kink solutions in generalized 2D dilaton gravity · Introduction · 0.99

  • Because of this, it has been widely used in studies of quantum gravity [ref] , gravitational collapse [ref] , black hole physics [ref] , thick brane world solutions [ref] , the relativistic gravitational N-body problem [ref] , and so on, see Refs. [ref] for a review of 2D dilaton gravity and its applications.

    First Law for Nonsingular Black Holes in 2D Dilaton Gravity · Introduction · 1.00

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