On the universality of mass inflation inside black holes

dc.contributor.authorChan, Jim Shung Faien
dc.date.accessioned2006-07-28T19:56:14Z
dc.date.available2006-07-28T19:56:14Z
dc.date.issued1998en
dc.date.submitted1998en
dc.description.abstractThe Cauchy horizon of the Reissner-Nordstrom black hole has been shown to be unstable under the perturbation of infalling and outgoing fluxes of radiation. Its behavior is characterized by an exponentially increasing mass function inside the hole. In this thesis I investigate the interiors of various black holes which arise as solutions of different low-energy candidates for quantum gravity theories. The spacetimes I consider include (1+1)-dimensional dilaton spacetimes, the (2+1)-dimensional black hole, a black string in 3+1 dimensions and Schwarzschild-anti-de-Sitter spacetime. I find that mass inflation is a process in which the divergence of the inner mass function strongly depends on the attenuating behavior of the late time radiation. I calculate the radiation falloff rates in different black hole backgrounds, both analytically and numerically, and investigate the circumstances which are conducive to mass inflation. In certain cases the falloff can be so strong that the inner mass function is not divergent at the Cauchy horizon under theperturbation of the ingoing and outgoing radiation.en
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/225
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dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.rightsCopyright: 1998, Chan, Jim Shung Fai. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectHarvested from Collections Canadaen
dc.titleOn the universality of mass inflation inside black holesen
dc.typeDoctoral Thesisen
uws-etd.degreePh.D.en
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen
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