Quantum Formation of Black Hole and Wormhole in Gravitational Collapse of a Dust Shell

TL;DR

This paper develops a quantum-mechanical model of a self-gravitating dust shell to explore how quantum effects influence the formation of black holes and wormholes during gravitational collapse, revealing that wormholes are forbidden at certain mass scales.

Contribution

It introduces a quantum model for a collapsing dust shell and analyzes the resulting spacetime structures, connecting quantum mechanics with classical gravitational collapse.

Findings

Wave functions of shell motion are derived.

Discrete mass spectra are obtained.

Wormhole states are forbidden at Planck-scale masses.

Abstract

Quantum-mechanical model of self-gravitating dust shell is considered. To clarify the relation between classical and quantum spacetime which the shell collapse form, we consider various time slicing on which quantum mechanics is developed. By considering the static time slicing which corresponds to an observer at a constant circumference radius, we obtain the wave functions of the shell motion and the discrete mass spectra which specify the global structures of spherically symmetric spacetime formed by the shell collapse. It is found that wormhole states are forbidden when the rest mass is comparable with Plank mass scale due to the zero-point quantum fluctuations.