The current excitement surrounding string theory prompted us to tackle the problem of black hole radiation. Claims have been made concerning a possible 'stringy mechanism' that would avoid the singularity problem by giving a divergent energy-dissipation rate. As a check on such arguments, the Casimir energy of the string between two infinite parallel mirrors is computed using the closed, oriented bosonic string. Such a calculation is also a prerequisite to the understanding of the more interesting situation of string behaviour in the presence of accelerating boundaries. The formalism used here is the first-quantized Polyakov approach, which most simply translates to an orbifold problem.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.59395 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | Hambli, Noureddine |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Physics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001067757, proquestno: AAIMM63561, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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