An apologia for firewalls

Ahmed Almheiri; Donald Marolf; Joseph Polchinski; Douglas Stanford; James Sully

doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2013)018

An apologia for firewalls

Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf, Joseph Polchinski, Douglas Stanford, James Sully

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We address claimed alternatives to the black hole firewall. We show that embedding the interior Hilbert space of an old black hole into the Hilbert space of the early radiation is inconsistent, as is embedding the semi-classical interior of an AdS black hole into any dual CFT Hilbert space. We develop the use of large AdS black holes as a system to sharpen the firewall argument. We also reiterate arguments that unitary non-local theories can avoid firewalls only if the non-localities are suitably dramatic.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	18
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2013
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2013)018
State	Published - 2013

Keywords

Black Holes
Black Holes in String Theory
Gauge-gravity correspondence

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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