Abstract
We study the analytic structure of the S matrix which is obtained from the reduced Wheeler-DeWitt wave function describing spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of massless scalar fields. The complex simple poles in the S matrix lead to the wave functions that satisfy the same boundary condition as quasinormal modes of a black hole, and correspond to the bounded states of the Euclidean Wheeler-DeWitt equation. These wave function are interpreted as quantum instantons.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 047504 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-4 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - 15 Aug 2000 |