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Strong Fields in General Relativity

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Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields

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This chapter treats the influence of strong gravitational fields on the vacuum. After a brief introduction to the Dirac equation in generally covariant form, it is shown that the gap between particle and antiparticle states is narrowed in the gravitational field of a collapsed star, such as a neutron star. When the star collapses to a black hole, the gap shrinks to zero at the Schwarzschild radius r s = 2GM/c 2,and the vacuum becomes unstable.

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, D-6000, Frankfurt/Main, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Professor Dr. Walter Greiner & Professor Dr. Berndt Müller

  2. Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Cape Town, 7700, Rondebosch, South Africa

    Professor Dr. Johann Rafelski

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Greiner, W., Müller, B., Rafelski, J. (1985). Strong Fields in General Relativity. In: Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82272-8_21

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82272-8_21

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