Entropy creation inside black holes points to observer complementarity
Abstract
Heating processes inside large black holes can produce tremendous amounts of entropy. Locality requires that this entropy adds on space-like surfaces, but the resulting entropy (10^10 times the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy in an example presented in the companion paper) exceeds the maximum entropy that can be accommodated by the black hole's degrees of freedom. Observer complementarity, which proposes a proliferation of non-local identifications inside the black hole, allows the entropy to be accommodated as long as individual observers inside the black hole see less than the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. In the specific model considered with huge entropy production, we show that individual observers do see less than the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, offering strong support for observer complementarity.
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@article{arxiv.0903.2290,
title = {Entropy creation inside black holes points to observer complementarity},
author = {Gavin Polhemus and Andrew J. S. Hamilton and Colin S. Wallace},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.2290},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages. This is a companion paper to arXiv:0801.4415; Added references