Can Black Hole Relax Unitarily?
Abstract
We review the way the BTZ black hole relaxes back to thermal equilibrium after a small perturbation and how it is seen in the boundary (finite volume) CFT. The unitarity requires the relaxation to be quasi-periodic. It is preserved in the CFT but is not obvious in the case of the semiclassical black hole the relaxation of which is driven by complex quasi-normal modes. We discuss two ways of modifying the semiclassical black hole geometry to maintain unitarity: the (fractal) brick wall and the worm-hole modification. In the latter case the entropy comes out correctly as well.
- Publication:
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Mathematical, Theoretical and Phenomenological Challenges Beyond the Standard Model
- Pub Date:
- March 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789812702166_0009
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0406130
- Bibcode:
- 2005mtpc.conf..109S
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 12 pages, Based on talks given at ``Black Holes IV'', Honey Harbour, June 2003 and at BW2003, Vrnjacka Banja, August 2003