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Complementarity + Back-reaction is enough

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-04-23 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We investigate a recent development of the black hole information problem, in which a practical paradox has been formulated to show that complementarity is insufficient. A crucial ingredient in this practical paradox is to distill information from the early Hawking radiation within the past lightcone of the black hole. By causality this action can back-react on the black hole. Taking this back-reaction into account, the paradox could be resolved without invoking any new physics beyond complementarity. This resolution requires a certain constraint on the S-matrix to be satisfied. Further insights into the S-matrix could potentially be obtained by effective-field-theory computations of the back-reaction on the nice slice.

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@article{arxiv.1308.6268,
  title  = {Complementarity + Back-reaction is enough},
  author = {Lam Hui and I-Sheng Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.6268},
  year   = {2014}
}

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v2, 21 pages, 4 figures

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