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Published March 1, 2004 | public
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Comment on "The black hole final state"

Abstract

Horowitz and Maldacena have suggested that the unitarity of the black hole S-matrix can be reconciled with Hawking's semiclassical arguments if a final-state boundary condition is imposed at the spacelike singularity inside the black hole. We point out that, in this scenario, departures from unitarity can arise due to interactions between the collapsing body and the infalling Hawking radiation inside the event horizon. The amount of information lost when a black hole evaporates depends on the extent to which these interactions are entangling.

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Copyright © SISSA 2004. Received 5 March 2004, accepted for publication 8 March 2004. Published 10 March 2004. We are grateful to Ben Schumacher and Charles Bennett for telling us about their work on "conditional quantum time travel." We also thank Dave Bacon, Patrick Hayden, Gary Horowitz, and Juan Maldacena for helpful discussions and correspondence. This work has been supported in part by the Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-FG03-92-ER40701, by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. EIA-0086038, and by the Caltech MURI Center for Quantum Networks under ARO Grant No. DAAD19-00-1-0374.

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