Lectures On Black Hole Evaporation and Information Loss
arXiv:hep-th/9412131 · doi:10.1016/0920-5632(95)00430-H
Abstract
Trieste Spring School Lectures describing the author's opinions about black hole evaporation and information loss. The remnant, or cornucopion scenario for the endpoint of Hawking evaporation is described in detail. In this picture information can be lost to the original asymptotic observer without violating the rules of quantum mechanics, because a black hole remnant is viewed as a large space connected onto our own by an almost pointlike opening. It does not behave like an elementary particle. Objections to remnants are refuted and the (remote) possibility of testing this scenario experimentally is discussed. Also included is a brief description of Susskind's picture of the stringy origin of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. An attempt is made to argue that the cornucopion picture and Susskind's model of the states responsible for black hole entropy are compatible with each other. Information is lost to the asymptotic observer in Hawking evaporation, but the information encoded in the BH entropy remains in causal contact with him and is re-emitted with the Hawking radiation.
65 pages, 9 figures submitted separately as a uuencoded compressed tar file, uses epsf.tex
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