A proposal to resolve the black hole information paradox
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
The entropy and information puzzles arising from black holes cannot be resolved if quantum gravity effects remain confined to a microscopic scale. We use concrete computations in nonperturbative string theory to argue for three kinds of nonlocal effects that operate over macroscopic distances. These effects arise when we make a bound state of a large number of branes, and occur at the correct scale to resolve the paradoxes associated with black holes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0205192,
title = {A proposal to resolve the black hole information paradox},
author = {Samir D. Mathur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0205192},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, harvmac (Essay given an `honorable mention' in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition 2002)