Cosmic censorship inside black holes

Abstract

A simple argument is given that a traversable Cauchy horizon inside a black hole is incompatible with unitary black hole evolution. The argument assumes the validity of black hole complementarity and applies to a generic black hole carrying angular momentum and/or charge. In the second part of the paper we review recent work on the semiclassical geometry of two-dimensional charged black holes.

18 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the Workshop on Strings, Black Holes, and Quantum Spacetime, Bokwang Phoenix Park, South Korea, April 21-23, 2006

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