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Suppose we allow a system to fall freely from infinity to a point near (but not beyond) the horizon of a black hole. We note that in a sense the information in the system is already lost to an observer at infinity. Once the system is too…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-05 Samir D. Mathur

Hawking's discovery that black holes can evaporate through radiation emission has posed a number of questions that with time became fundamental hallmarks for a quantum theory of gravity. The most famous one is likely the information…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-17 Filiberto Ares , Sara Murciano , Lorenzo Piroli , Pasquale Calabrese

Motivated by the parallelism existing between the puzzles of classical physics at the beginning of the XXth century and the current paradoxes in the search of a quantum theory of gravity, we give, in analogy with Planck's black body…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 A. Fabbri , D. J. Navarro , J. Navarro-Salas

On the basis of recently discovered connections between D-branes and black holes, I show how the information puzzle is solved by superstring theory as the fundamental theory of quantum gravity. The picture that emerges is that a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Daniele Amati

The black hole information loss paradox epitomizes the contradictions between general relativity and quantum field theory. The AdS/CFT correspondence provides an implicit answer for the information loss paradox in black hole physics by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas

Systems of enhanced memory capacity are subjected to a universal effect of memory burden, which suppresses their decay. In this paper, we study a prototype model to show that memory burden can be overcome by rewriting stored quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-18 Gia Dvali , Lukas Eisemann , Marco Michel , Sebastian Zell

A recent, intriguing paper by Hawking, Perry and Strominger suggests that soft photons and gravitons can be regarded as black hole hair and may be relevant to the black hole information paradox. In this note we make use of factorization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Mehrdad Mirbabayi , Massimo Porrati

Black holes are extremely relativistic objects. Physical processes around them occur in a regime where the gravitational field is extremely intense. Under such conditions, our representations of space, time, gravity, and thermodynamics are…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-09-12 Gustavo E. Romero

It has been claimed recently that the black hole information-loss paradox has been resolved: the evolution of quantum states in the presence of a black hole is unitary and information preserving. We point out that, contrary to some claims…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Dejan Stojkovic , Glenn D. Starkman , Fred C. Adams

Thirty years of a deepening information paradox suggest the need to revise our basic physical framework. Multiple indicators point toward reassessment of the principle of locality: lack of a precise definition in quantum gravity, behavior…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven B. Giddings

Time's apparent passage has long been debated by philosophers, with no decisive argument for or against its objective existence. In this paper we show that introducing the issue of determinism gives the debate a new, empirical twist. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Avshalom C. Elitzur , Shahar Dolev

In this MSc. thesis, we have attempted to give an overview of the firewall paradox and various approaches towards its resolution. After an introductory chapter on some basic concepts in quantum field theory in curved spacetimes such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-06 Furkan Semih Dündar

We develop a conceptual parallel between the black hole information problem and Zeno's paradox, highlighting the role of limiting procedures that turn formally infinite constructions into finite physical observables. Building on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Xian-Hui Ge

We consider black-hole evaporation from a hidden-variables perspective. It is suggested that Hawking information loss, associated with the transition from a pure to a mixed quantum state, is compensated for by the creation of deviations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Antony Valentini

This paper explores the enduring black hole information and firewall paradoxes, challenges that have prompted many proposals, conjectures, and theories. Noteworthy among these are the ER = EPR conjecture and AdS/CFT correspondence, which…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Galina Weinstein

It is generally believed that, when matter collapses to form a black hole, the complete information about the initial state of the matter cannot be retrieved by future asymptotic observers, through local measurements. This is contrary to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Kinjalk Lochan , Sumanta Chakraborty , T. Padmanabhan

We consider a novel approach to address the black hole information paradox (BHIP). The idea is based on adapting, to the situation at hand, the modified versions of quantum theory involving spontaneous stochastic dynamical collapse of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Sujoy K. Modak , Leonardo Ortíz , Igor Peña , Daniel Sudarsky

To what extent does the black hole information paradox lead to violations of quantum mechanics? I explain how black hole complementarity provides a framework to articulate how quantum characterizations of black holes can remain consistent…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Siddharth Muthukrishnan

The information paradox in the quantum evolution of black holes is studied within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence. The unitarity of the CFT strongly suggests that all information about an initial state that forms a black hole is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 D. A. Lowe , L. Thorlacius

Hawking radiation is one essential property of quantum black hole. It results in the information loss paradox, and give important clue to the unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity. In the previous works, the boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-24 Jingbo Wang