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Gauge-Gravity Duality and the Black Hole Interior

Donald Marolf and Joseph Polchinski
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 171301 – Published 21 October 2013
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Abstract

We present a further argument that typical black holes with field theory duals have firewalls at the horizon. This argument makes no reference to entanglement between the black hole and any distant system, and so is not evaded by identifying degrees of freedom inside the black hole with those outside. We also address the Einstein-Rosen=Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen conjecture of Maldacena and Susskind, arguing that the correlations in generic highly entangled states cannot be geometrized as a smooth wormhole.

  • Received 18 July 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.171301

© 2013 American Physical Society

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Published 21 October 2013

New theoretical work rekindles the question on whether black holes have an interior: Would a firewall destroy any observer crossing a black hole horizon?

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Authors & Affiliations

Donald Marolf*

  • Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-9530, USA

Joseph Polchinski

  • Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-4030, USA

  • *marolf@physics.ucsb.edu
  • joep@kitp.ucsb.edu

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Vol. 111, Iss. 17 — 25 October 2013

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