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Information loss paradox revisited: farewell firewall?

Authors :
Gan, Wen-Cong
Shu, Fu-Wen
Publication Year :
2020

Abstract

Unitary evolution makes pure state on one Cauchy surface evolve to pure state on another Cauchy surface. Outgoing Hawking radiation is only subsystem on the late Cauchy surface. The requirement that Hawking radiation to be pure amounts to require purity of subsystem when total system is pure. We will see this requirement will lead to firewall even in \textit{flat} spacetime, and thus is invalid. Information is either stored in the entanglement between field modes inside black hole and the outgoing modes or stored in correlation between geometry and Hawking radiation when singularity is resolved by quantum gravity effects. We will give a simple argument that even in semi-classical regime, information is (at least partly) stored in correlation between geometry and Hawking radiation.<br />Comment: Honorable Mention on the Gravity Research Foundation's 2020 Essay Competition; References added; To appear in IJMPD

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2005.06730
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271820430191