Unitary Rules for Black Hole Evaporation

dc.creatorStrominger, Andrew
dc.date1994-10-26
dc.date1994-11-04
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:03:48Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:03:48Z
dc.descriptionHawking has proposed non-unitary rules for computing the probabilistic outcome of black hole formation. It is shown that the usual interpretation of these rules violates the superposition principle and energy conservation. Refinements of Hawking's rules are found which restore both the superposition principle and energy conservation, but leave completely unaltered Hawking's prediction of a thermal emission spectrum prior to the endpoint of black hole evaporation. These new rules violate clustering. They further imply the existence of superselection sectors, within each of which clustering is restored and a unitary $S$-matrix is shown to exist. -- This is an expanded version of a talk given at the Seventh Marcel Grossman Meeting on General Relativity, Stanford CA.
dc.description19 pages, 8 uuencoded figures, references added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9410187
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9410187
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/149148
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleUnitary Rules for Black Hole Evaporation
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