Black hole pair creation and the stability of flat space

Abstract

We extend the Gross-Perry-Yaffe approach of hot flat space instability to Minkowski space. This is done by a saddle point approximation of the partition function in a Schwarzschild wormhole background which is coincident with an eternal black hole. The appearance of an instability in the whole manifold is here interpreted as a black hole pair creation.

11 pages,RevTeX4, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys. A

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