Black holes without firewalls

Klaus Larjo*, David A. Lowe, Larus Thorlacius

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number104018
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume87
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 May 2013

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