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gr-qc1995★ 10 cited
Pair creation rate for black holes
Simon F. Ross
I consider a truncation of low-energy string theory which contains two gauge fields. After making some general comments on the theory, I describe a previously-obtained insta…
gr-qc1995★ 97 cited
Pair production of black holes on cosmic strings
S. W. Hawking, Simon F. Ross
We discuss the pair creation of black holes by the breaking of a cosmic string. We obtain an instanton describing this process from the metric, and calculate its probability. T…