Black Hole Interior in Quantum Gravity

Yasunori Nomura, Fabio Sanches, and Sean J. Weinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 201301 – Published 18 May 2015

Abstract

We discuss the interior of a black hole in quantum gravity, in which black holes form and evaporate unitarily. The interior spacetime appears in the sense of complementarity because of special features revealed by the microscopic degrees of freedom when viewed from a semiclassical standpoint. The relation between quantum mechanics and the equivalence principle is subtle, but they are still consistent.

Received 29 December 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.201301

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Yasunori Nomura, Fabio Sanches, and Sean J. Weinberg

Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA and Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

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Vol. 114, Iss. 20 — 22 May 2015

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