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Information Loss in Black Hole Evaporation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

Parikh-Wilczek tunnelling framework is investigated again. We argue that Parikh-Wilczek's treatment, which satisfies the first law of black hole thermodynamics and consists with an underlying unitary theory, is only suitable for a reversible process. Because of the negative heat capacity, an evaporating black hole is a highly unstable system. That is, the factual emission process is irreversible, the unitary theory will not be satisfied and the information loss is possible.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0512121,
  title  = {Information Loss in Black Hole Evaporation},
  author = {Jingyi Zhang and Yapeng Hu and Zheng Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0512121},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, RevTex; added references