Thermal Decay without Information Loss in Horizonless Microstate Geometries

Abstract

We develop a new hybrid WKB technique to compute boundary-to-boundary scalar Green functions in asymptotically-AdS backgrounds in which the scalar wave equation is separable and is explicitly solvable in the asymptotic region. We apply this technique to a family of six-dimensional $\frac{1}{8}$-BPS asymptotically AdS${}_3\times$S${}^3$ horizonless geometries that have the same charges and angular momenta as a D1-D5-P black hole with a large horizon area. At large and intermediate distances, these geometries very closely approximate the extremal-BTZ$\times$S${}^3$ geometry of the black hole, but instead of having an event horizon, these geometries have a smooth highly-redshifted global-AdS${}_3\times$S${}^3$ cap in the IR. We show that the response function of a scalar probe, in momentum space, is essentially given by the pole structure of the highly-redshifted global-AdS${}_3$ modulated by the BTZ response function. In position space, this translates into a sharp exponential black-hole-like decay for times shorter than $N_1{N}_5$, followed by the emergence of evenly spaced "echoes from the cap," with period $\sim N_1{N}_5$. Our result shows that horizonless microstate geometries can have the same thermal decay as black holes without the associated information loss.

arXiv comment62 pages, 15 figures; v2: minor modifications

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