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Observer complementarity for black holes and holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-07-09 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We present a mathematical formulation of black hole complementarity based on recent rules for including the observer in quantum cosmology. We argue that this provides a self-consistent treatment of the interior of an evaporating black hole throughout its history, as well as the Antonini-Sasieta-Swingle-Rath configuration where a closed universe is entangled with a pair of AdS universes.

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@article{arxiv.2507.06046,
  title  = {Observer complementarity for black holes and holography},
  author = {Netta Engelhardt and Elliott Gesteau and Daniel Harlow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.06046},
  year   = {2025}
}

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5+2 pages, 8 figures, 1 table

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