Can gravitational collapse and black-hole evaporation be a unitary process after all?

Abstract

This paper shows a way of how one may resolve the non-unitarity problem in black-hole physics without modifications of the basic principles of local quantum field theory.

typos fixed, references added, clarifications added, breakdown of classical predictability discussed

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