Path Integrals, Black Holes and Connguration Space Topology
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A path integral derivation is given of a thermal propagator in a collapsing black-hole spacetime. The thermal nature of the propagator as seen by an inertial observer far from the black hole is understood in terms of homo-topically non-trivial paths in the connguration space appropriate to tortoise coordinates.
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