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The black hole final state

Gary T. Horowitz et al JHEP02(2004)008   doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/02/008  Help

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Gary T. Horowitz1 and Juan Maldacena2
1 University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S.A.
2 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, U.S.A.
E-mail: gary@physics.ucsb.edu

Abstract. We propose that in quantum gravity one needs to impose a final state boundary condition at black hole singularities. This resolves the apparent contradiction between string theory and semiclassical arguments over whether black hole evaporation is unitary.

Key words: Black Holes in String Theory; AdS-CFT and dS-CFT Correspondence; Black Holes

E-print number: hep-th/0310281
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Received 11 December 2003, accepted for publication 3 February 2004
Published 19 February 2004

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