1306.6245 (Wolfgang Mueck)

On the number of soft quanta in classical field configurations    [PDF]

Wolfgang Mueck

A central point in the large-N portrait of black holes proposed by Dvali and Gomez is the estimate of the number of soft quanta that make up the classical gravitational field. It is shown here that the coherent state formalism provides a way to calculate that number directly. As a consequence, the average energy of the quanta is such that the typical geometric size of the field source can be roughly interpreted as their de Broglie wavelength. The calculation is done for the electromagnetic field and for Newtonian gravity, and it is argued that the number of soft quanta should be unchanged in General Relativity due to the long range nature of gravity.

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