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Thin-shell bubbles and information loss problem in anti de Sitter background

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-12-30 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the motion of thin-shell bubbles and their tunneling in anti de Sitter (AdS) background. We are interested in the case when the outside of a shell is a Schwarzschild-AdS space (false vacuum) and the inside of it is an AdS space with a lower vacuum energy (true vacuum). If a collapsing true vacuum bubble is created, classically it will form a Schwarzschild-AdS black hole. However, this collapsing bubble can tunnel to a bouncing bubble that moves out to spatial infinity. Then, although the classical causal structure of a collapsing true vacuum bubble has the singularity and the event horizon, quantum mechanically the wavefunction has support for a history without any singularity nor event horizon which is mediated by the non-perturbative, quantum tunneling effect. This may be regarded an explicit example that shows the unitarity of an asymptotic observer in AdS, while a classical observer who only follows the most probable history effectively lose information due to the formation of an event horizon.

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@article{arxiv.1404.1565,
  title  = {Thin-shell bubbles and information loss problem in anti de Sitter background},
  author = {Misao Sasaki and Dong-han Yeom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.1565},
  year   = {2014}
}

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18 pages, 6 figures

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