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Fuzzballs and the information paradox: a summary and conjectures
Samir D. Mathur
The black hole information paradox is one of the most important issues in theoretical physics. We review some recent progress using string theory in understanding the nature of bla…
Non-extremal fuzzballs and ergoregion emission
Borun D. Chowdhury, Samir D. Mathur
In the traditional picture of black holes Hawking radiation is created by pair creation from the vacuum at the horizon. In the fuzzball proposal, individual microstates do not have…
Pair creation in non-extremal fuzzball geometries
Borun D. Chowdhury, Samir D. Mathur
It is possible to construct a special family of nonextremal black hole microstates. These microstates are unstable, and emit radiation at a rate which is found to exactly equal the…
Tunneling into fuzzball states
Samir D. Mathur
String theory suggests that black hole microstates are quantum, horizon sized `fuzzballs', rather than smooth geometries with horizon. Radiation from fuzzballs can carry informatio…
What is the state of the Early Universe?
Samir D. Mathur
As we follow our Universe to early times, we find that matter was crushed to high densities, somewhat similar to the behavior at a black hole singularity. String theory has made pr…
What Exactly is the Information Paradox?
Samir D. Mathur
The black hole information paradox tells us something important about the way quantum mechanics and gravity fit together. In these lectures I try to give a pedagogical review of th…