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Heat as an inertial force: A quantum equivalence principle
K. Thanjavur, W. Israel
The firewall was introduced into black hole evaporation scenarios as a deus ex machina designed to break entanglements and preserve unitarity (Almheiri et.al., 2013). Here we show…
Shenanigans at the black hole horizon: pair creation or Boulware accretion?
Werner Israel
The current scenario of black hole evaporation holds that the Hawking energy flux is powered by pair creation at the horizon. However, pair creation produces entanglements, som…
A Massless Firewall
Werner Israel
Several anomalies of black hole thermodynamics are resolved if one accepts hints from semi classical theory that in regions of strong gravity the energy density of the vacuum can b…
Band-aid for information loss from black holes
Werner Israel, Zinkoo Yun
We summarize, simplify and extend recent work showing that small deviations from exact thermality in Hawking radiation, first uncovered by Kraus and Wilczek, have the capacity to c…
Gravitational field of relativistic gyratons
Valeri P. Frolov, Werner Israel, Andrei Zelnikov
The metric ansatz is used to describe the gravitational field of a beam-pulse of spinning radiation (gyraton) in an arbitrary number of spacetime dimensions D. First we demonstrate…
Dark energy, wormholes, and the Big Rip
Valerio Faraoni, Werner Israel
The time evolution of a wormhole in a Friedmann universe approaching the Big Rip is studied. The wormhole is modeled by a thin spherical shell accreting the superquintessence fluid…