String theory and the principle of black hole complementarity
Abstract
String theory provides an example of the kind of apparent inconsistency that the principle of black hole complementarity deals with. To a freely infalling observer a string falling through a black hole horizon appears to be a Planck size object. To an outside observer the string and all the information it carries begin to spread as the string approache the horizon. In a time of order the ``information retention time'' it fills the entire area of the horizon.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.2367
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9307168
- Bibcode:
- 1993PhRvL..71.2367S
- Keywords:
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- 04.60.+n;
- 11.17.+y;
- 97.60.Lf;
- Black holes;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, SU-ITP-93-18