Where is the information stored in black holes?

Gary T. Horowitz and Donald Marolf
Phys. Rev. D 55, 3654 – Published 15 March 1997
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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.

  • Received 30 October 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.55.3654

©1997 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Gary T. Horowitz

  • Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106

Donald Marolf

  • Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244

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Vol. 55, Iss. 6 — 15 March 1997

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