Naked Black Hole Firewalls

Pisin Chen, Yen Chin Ong, Don N. Page, Misao Sasaki, and Dong-han Yeom
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161304 – Published 22 April 2016

Abstract

In the firewall proposal, it is assumed that the firewall lies near the event horizon and should not be observable except by infalling observers, who are presumably terminated at the firewall. However, if the firewall is located near where the horizon would have been, based on the spacetime evolution up to that time, later quantum fluctuations of the Hawking emission rate can cause the “teleological” event horizon to have migrated to the inside of the firewall location, rendering the firewall naked. In principle, the firewall can be arbitrarily far outside the horizon. This casts doubt about the notion that firewalls are the “most conservative” solution to the information loss paradox.

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  • Received 25 November 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.161304

© 2016 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

Pisin Chen1,2,*, Yen Chin Ong3,†, Don N. Page4,‡, Misao Sasaki5,§, and Dong-han Yeom1,∥

  • 1Leung Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
  • 2Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, California 94305, USA
  • 3Nordita, KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Stockholm University, Roslagstullsbacken 23, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
  • 4Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1, Canada
  • 5Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

  • *pisinchen@phys.ntu.edu.tw
  • yenchin.ong@nordita.org
  • profdonpage@gmail.com
  • §misao@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp
  • innocent.yeom@gmail.com

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Vol. 116, Iss. 16 — 22 April 2016

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