Information Loss in Black Holes

dc.creatorHawking, S. W.
dc.date2005-07-18
dc.date2005-09-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:30:12Z
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dc.descriptionThe question of whether information is lost in black holes is investigated using Euclidean path integrals. The formation and evaporation of black holes is regarded as a scattering problem with all measurements being made at infinity. This seems to be well formulated only in asymptotically AdS spacetimes. The path integral over metrics with trivial topology is unitary and information preserving. On the other hand, the path integral over metrics with non-trivial topologies leads to correlation functions that decay to zero. Thus at late times only the unitary information preserving path integrals over trivial topologies will contribute. Elementary quantum gravity interactions do not lose information or quantum coherence.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0507171
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0507171
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D72:084013,2005
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.72.084013
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/178060
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleInformation Loss in Black Holes
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