Towards a Semiclassical Seismology of Black Holes

Abstract

Black hole spacetimes are semiclassically not static. For black holes whose lifetime is larger than the age of the universe we compute, in leading order, the power spectrum of deviations of the electromagnetic charge from it's average value, zero. Semiclassically the metric itself has a statistical interpretation and we compute a lowerbound on its variance. (1 figure, at end in encapsulated postscript - to locate use 'find figs')

21 pages, 1 figure, MIT CTP#2226

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