How fast can a black hole release its information?

DOI10.1142/S0218271809016004zbMATH Open1183.83066arXiv0905.4483OpenAlexW2110093164MaRDI QIDQ5306281FDOQ5306281

Authors: Samir D. Mathur 

Publication date: 8 April 2010

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

Abstract: When a shell collapses through its horizon, semiclassical physics suggests that information cannot escape from this horizon. One might hope that nonperturbative quantum gravity effects will change this situation and avoid the `information paradox'. We note that string theory has provided a set of states over which the wavefunction of the shell can spread, and that the number of these states is large enough that such a spreading would significantly modify the classically expected evolution. In this article we perform a simple estimate of the spreading time, showing that it is much shorter than the Hawking evaporation time for the hole. Thus information can emerge from the hole through the relaxation of the shell state into a linear combination of fuzzballs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.4483

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Black holes (83C57)

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