Where is the Information Stored in Black Holes?
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-08-24 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
It is shown that many modes of the gravitational field exist only inside the horizon of an extreme black hole in string theory. At least in certain cases, the number of such modes is sufficient to account for the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. These modes are associated with sources which carry Ramond-Ramond charge, and so may be viewed as the strong coupling limit of D-branes. Although these sources naturally live at the singularity, they are well defined and generate modes which extend out to the horizon. This suggests that the information in an extreme black hole is not localized near the singularity or the horizon, but extends between them.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9610171,
title = {Where is the Information Stored in Black Holes?},
author = {Gary T. Horowitz and Donald Marolf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9610171},
year = {2016}
}
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