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Information loss paradox revisited: farewell firewall?

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-02-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

Unitary evolution makes pure state on one Cauchy surface evolve to pure state on another Cauchy surface. Outgoing Hawking radiation is only subsystem on the late Cauchy surface. The requirement that Hawking radiation to be pure amounts to require purity of subsystem when total system is pure. We will see this requirement will lead to firewall even in \textit{flat} spacetime, and thus is invalid. Information is either stored in the entanglement between field modes inside black hole and the outgoing modes or stored in correlation between geometry and Hawking radiation when singularity is resolved by quantum gravity effects. We will give a simple argument that even in semi-classical regime, information is (at least partly) stored in correlation between geometry and Hawking radiation.

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@article{arxiv.2005.06730,
  title  = {Information loss paradox revisited: farewell firewall?},
  author = {Wen-Cong Gan and Fu-Wen Shu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.06730},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Honorable Mention on the Gravity Research Foundation's 2020 Essay Competition; References added; To appear in IJMPD