Directly observing entropy accumulate on the horizon and holography
Abstract
Recent numerical simulations of gravitational collapse show that there exists a special foliation of the spacetime where matter and entropy accumulate directly on the inside of the horizon surface. In this foliation, the time coincides with the proper time of the asymptotic static observer (ASO) and for spherical symmetry, this corresponds to isotropic coordinates. In this gauge, the three-volume in the interior shrinks to zero and only the horizon area remains at the end of collapse. In a different foliation, matter and entropy accumulate in the volume. The entropy is however independent of the foliation. Black hole holography is therefore a mapping from an arbitrary foliation, where information resides in the volume, to the special ASO frame, where it resides directly on the horizon surface.
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@article{arxiv.1205.3410,
title = {Directly observing entropy accumulate on the horizon and holography},
author = {Ariel Edery and Hugues Beauchesne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.3410},
year = {2012}
}
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Essay selected for honorable mention in the 2012 Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition