Membrane paradigm realized?

Details Membrane paradigm realized? Membrane paradigm realized?

2010-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/1005.3555v1

Gen.Rel.Grav.42:2331-2336,2010; Int.J.Mod.Phys.D19:2423-2428,2010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

8 pages, Latex, 3 figures (Essay given second place in Gravity Research Foundation essay competition 2010)

Scientific paper

10.1007/s10714-010-1022-4 10.114

Are there any degrees of freedom on the black hole horizon? Using the `membrane paradigm' we can reproduce coarse-grained physics outside the hole by assuming a fictitious membrane just outside the horizon. But to solve the information puzzle we need `real' degrees of freedom at the horizon, which can modify Hawking's evolution of quantum modes. We argue that recent results on gravitational microstates imply a set of real degrees of freedom just outside the horizon; the state of the hole is a linear combination of rapidly oscillating gravitational solutions with support concentrated just outside the horizon radius. The collective behavior of these microstate solutions may give a realization of the membrane paradigm, with the fictitious membrane now replaced by real, explicit degrees of freedom.

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