Is there an information-loss problem for black holes?

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2003-04-29

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0304102v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

11 pages, to appear in the Proceedings of the conference DICE, Piombino 2002, ed. by H.-T. Elze (Springer 2003), references an

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Black holes emit thermal radiation (Hawking effect). If after black-hole evaporation nothing else were left, an arbitrary initial state would evolve into a thermal state (`information-loss problem'). Here it is argued that the whole evolution is unitary and that the thermal nature of Hawking radiation emerges solely through decoherence -- the irreversible interaction with further degrees of freedom. For this purpose a detailed comparison with an analogous case in cosmology (entropy of primordial fluctuations) is presented. Some remarks on the possible origin of black-hole entropy due to interaction with other degrees of freedom are added. This might concern the interaction with quasi-normal modes or with background fields in string theory.

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