Information is not lost in the evaporation of 2D black holes

We analyze Hawking evaporation of the Callan-Giddings-Harvey-Strominger black holes from a quantum geometry perspective and show that information is not lost, primarily because the quantum space-time is sufficiently larger than the classical. Using suitable approximations to extract physics from qua...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2008-05, Vol.100 (21), p.211302-211302, Article 211302
Hauptverfasser: Ashtekar, Abhay, Taveras, Victor, Varadarajan, Madhavan
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We analyze Hawking evaporation of the Callan-Giddings-Harvey-Strominger black holes from a quantum geometry perspective and show that information is not lost, primarily because the quantum space-time is sufficiently larger than the classical. Using suitable approximations to extract physics from quantum space-times we establish that (i) the future null infinity of the quantum space-time is sufficiently long for the past vacuum to evolve to a pure state in the future, (ii) this state has a finite norm in the future Fock space, and (iii) all the information comes out at future infinity; there are no remnants.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.211302