Precursors, black holes, and a locality bound
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-07 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We revisit the problem of precursors in the AdS/CFT correspondence. Identification of the precursors is expected to improve our understanding of the tension between holography and bulk locality and of the resolution of the black hole information paradox. Previous arguments that the precursors are large, undecorated Wilson loops are found to be flawed. We argue that the role of precursors should become evident when one saturates a certain locality bound. The spacetime uncertainty principle is a direct consequence of this bound.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0103231,
title = {Precursors, black holes, and a locality bound},
author = {S. B. Giddings and M. Lippert},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0103231},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
26 pages, 8 figs; reference added, minor clarification in sec. 2; incorrect draft mistakenly used in version 2