Black Hole Complementarity and ER/EPR
High Energy Physics - Theory
2025-12-11 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We demonstrate that wormholes must be entangled regardless of asymptotic boundary conditions. Assuming black hole complementarity, we argue that traversable wormholes instantiate entanglement-assisted quantum channels and that this entanglement must be present between the stretched horizons as an initial condition prior to traversability. This result demonstrates the forward direction of the ER/EPR conjectures.
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@article{arxiv.2503.16610,
title = {Black Hole Complementarity and ER/EPR},
author = {Ning Bao and Grant N. Remmen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.16610},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
18 pages, 1 figure. Honorable Mention, Gravity Research Foundation 2025 Awards for Essays on Gravitation