Self-renormalization of the classical quasilocal energy
- Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (United States)
Pointlike objects cause many of the divergences that afflict physical theories. For instance, the gravitational binding energy of a point particle in Newtonian mechanics is infinite. In general relativity, the analog of a point particle is a black hole and the notion of binding energy must be replaced by quasilocal energy (QLE). The QLE derived by York, and elaborated by Brown and York, is finite outside the horizon but it was not considered how to evaluate it inside the horizon. We present a prescription for finding the QLE inside a horizon, and show that it is finite at the singularity for a variety of types of black holes. The energy is typically concentrated just inside the horizon, not at the central singularity.
- OSTI ID:
- 21020395
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 75, Issue 8; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.084026; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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