Black hole information versus locality

N. Itzhaki
Phys. Rev. D 54, 1557 – Published 15 July 1996
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Abstract

We discuss the limitations on space-time measurement in the Schwarzchild metric. We find that near the horizon the limitations on the space-time measurement are of the order of the black-hole radius. We suggest that it indicates that a large-mass black hole cannot be described by means of local-field theory even at macroscopic distances and that any attempt to describe black hole formation and evaporation by means of an effective local-field theory will necessarily lead to information loss. We also present a new interpretation of the black-hole entropy that leads to S=cA, where c is a constant of order 1 that does not depend on the number of fields.

  • Received 2 November 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.54.1557

©1996 American Physical Society

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N. Itzhaki*

  • Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Israel

  • *Electronic address:sanny@post.tau.ac.il

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Vol. 54, Iss. 2 — 15 July 1996

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