Black holes without firewalls
High Energy Physics - Theory
2013-06-24 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
The postulates of black hole complementarity do not imply a firewall for infalling observers at a black hole horizon. The dynamics of the stretched horizon, that scrambles and re-emits information, determines whether infalling observers experience anything out of the ordinary when entering a large black hole. In particular, there is no firewall if the stretched horizon degrees of freedom retain information for a time of order the black hole scrambling time.
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@article{arxiv.1211.4620,
title = {Black holes without firewalls},
author = {Klaus Larjo and David A. Lowe and Larus Thorlacius},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.4620},
year = {2013}
}
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17 pages, 4 figures (minor changes)