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hep-th2009★ 976 cited
The information paradox: A pedagogical introduction
Samir D. Mathur
The black hole information paradox is a very poorly understood problem. It is often believed that Hawking's argument is not precisely formulated, and a more careful accounting of n…
hep-th2009★ 62 cited
Emission from the D1D5 CFT
Steven G. Avery, Borun D. Chowdhury, Samir D. Mathur
It is believed that the D1D5 brane system is described by an 'orbifold CFT' at a special point in moduli space. We first develop a general formulation relating amplitudes in a d-di…
hep-th2009★ 39 cited
How fast can a black hole release its information?
Samir D. Mathur
When a shell collapses through its horizon, semiclassical physics suggests that information cannot escape from this horizon. One might hope that nonperturbative quantum gravity eff…