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Firewalls from wormholes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-08-03 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Spacetime wormholes can lead to surprises in black hole physics. We show that a very old black hole can tunnel to a white hole/firewall by emitting a large baby universe. We study the process for a perturbed thermofield double black hole in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity, using the lowest order (genus one) spacetime wormhole that corresponds to single baby-universe emission. The probability for tunneling to a white hole is proportional to t2e2St^2 e^{-2S} where tt is the age of the black hole and SS is the entropy of one black hole.

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@article{arxiv.2208.01625,
  title  = {Firewalls from wormholes},
  author = {Douglas Stanford and Zhenbin Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.01625},
  year   = {2022}
}

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20+10 pages

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