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Quantum Descriptions of Singularities Leading to Pair Creation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2017

Charles W. Misner
Charles W. Misner*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Md. 20742, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Inhomogeneous generalizations of the Kasner cosmological models have been found by Gowdy, and can be used to exhibit simplified models of quantized gravitational fields. One finds that a quantum description can be given arbitrarily near the singularity. Graviton pair creation occurs, and can be seen to convert anisotropic expansion rates into the energy of graviton pairs.

Type
Part VI: Matter-Antimatter Universes and Physical Processes Near the Singularity
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 63: Confrontation of Cosmological Theories , 1974 , pp. 319 - 327
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974 

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