Remnants, Fuzzballs or Wormholes?
Abstract
The black hole information paradox has caused enormous confusion over four decades. But in recent years, the theorem of quantum strong-subaddditivity has sorted out the possible resolutions into three sharp categories: (A) No new physics at ; this necessarily implies remnants/information loss. A realization of remnants is given by a baby Universe attached near . (B) Violation of the `no-hair' theorem by nontrivial effects at the horizon . This possibility is realized by fuzzballs in string theory, and gives unitary evaporation. (C) Having the vacuum at the horizon, but requiring that Hawking quanta at be somehow identified with degrees of freedom inside the black hole. A model for this `extreme nonlocality' is realized by conjecturing that wormholes connect the radiation quanta to the hole.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1406.0807,
title = {Remnants, Fuzzballs or Wormholes?},
author = {Samir D. Mathur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.0807},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures (Essay awarded an honorable mention in the Gravity Research Foundation essay competition 2014)