Schrodinger Picture of Quantum Gravitational Collapse

Understand

The functional Schrodinger equation is used to study the quantum collapse of a gravitating, spherical domain wall and a massless scalar field coupled to the metric.

• The approach includes backreaction of pre-Hawking radiation on the gravitational collapse.
• Truncating the degrees of freedom to a minisuperspace leads to an integro-differential Schrodinger equation.
• We define a "black hole" operator and find its eigenstates.