Black holes without firewalls

Klaus Larjo, David A. Lowe, and Larus Thorlacius
Phys. Rev. D 87, 104018 – Published 16 May 2013

Abstract

The postulates of black hole complementarity do not imply a firewall for infalling observers at a black hole horizon. The dynamics of the stretched horizon, that scrambles and reemits information, determines whether infalling observers experience anything out of the ordinary when entering a large black hole. In particular, there is no firewall if the stretched horizon degrees of freedom retain information for a time of the order of the black hole scrambling time.

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  • Received 4 December 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.104018

© 2013 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Klaus Larjo* and David A. Lowe

  • Department of Physics, Brown University, Box 1843, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA

Larus Thorlacius

  • Nordita, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University, Roslagstullsbacken 23, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden and University of Iceland, Science Institute, Dunhaga 3, IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland

  • *klaus_larjo@brown.edu
  • lowe@brown.edu
  • larus@nordita.org

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Vol. 87, Iss. 10 — 15 May 2013

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