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On the Origin of Black Hole Paradoxes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-01-29 v5 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Black hole firewall paradox is an inconsistency between four postulates in black hole physics: (1) the unitary evolution in quantum systems, (2) application of the semi-classical field theory in low curvature backgrounds, (3) statistical mechanical origin of the black hole entropy, and (4) the equivalence principle in the version of no drama for free-falling observers in the vicinity of the horizon. Based on the existence of the Hawking radiation for the static observers standing outside a Schwarzschild black hole, we show a direct contradiction between the postulates (2) and (4). If there is not a way out of this new problem, it implies the necessity of relaxing one of these two assumptions for resolving the black hole firewall paradox.

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@article{arxiv.2203.10958,
  title  = {On the Origin of Black Hole Paradoxes},
  author = {Kamal Hajian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.10958},
  year   = {2024}
}

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16 pages, 1 figure, published version