FALLING INTO A BLACK HOLE

DOI10.1142/S0218271808012309MaRDI QIDQ3532179zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samir D. Mathur

Publication date 3 November 2008

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3828

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: String theory tells us that quantum gravity has a dual description as a field theory (without gravity). We use the field theory dual to ask what happens to an object as it falls into the simplest black hole: the 2-charge extremal hole. In the field theory description the wavefunction of a particle is spread over a large number of `loops', and the particle has a well-defined position in space only if it has the same `position' on each loop. For the infalling particle we find one definition of `same position' on each loop, but there is a different definition for outgoing particles and no canonical definition in general in the horizon region. Thus the meaning of `position' becomes ill-defined inside the horizon.

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