A black hole in two-dimensional space-time

Abstract

An imploding shell of radiation is shown to create a 2-D black hole within the framework of the ``R=T'' theory. The radius of the horizon is given by 1/(2M), where M is the mass of the black hole. The topology of the central singularity is that of a corner. The radiation emitted very far from the black hole is thermal with temperature M/(2π). The back-reaction problem is solved to one-loop order.