References & Citations
High Energy Physics - Theory
Title: Black Hole Information
(Submitted on 10 May 1993 (v1), last revised 25 Feb 1995 (this version, v5))
Abstract: Hawking's 1974 calculation of thermal emission from a classical black hole led to his 1976 proposal that information may be lost from our universe as a pure quantum state collapses gravitationally into a black hole, which then evaporates completely into a mixed state of thermal radiation. Another possibility is that the information is not lost, but is stored in a remnant of the evaporating black hole. A third idea is that the information comes out in nonthermal correlations within the Hawking radiation, which would be expected to occur at too slow a rate, or be too spread out, to be revealed by any nonperturbative calculation.
Submission history
From: Don N. Page [view email][v1] Mon, 10 May 1993 22:34:41 GMT (0kb,I)
[v2] Wed, 21 Jul 1993 23:50:40 GMT (0kb,I)
[v3] Mon, 2 Aug 1993 04:28:41 GMT (0kb,I)
[v4] Tue, 31 Aug 1993 22:47:28 GMT (0kb,I)
[v5] Sat, 25 Feb 1995 23:32:38 GMT (42kb)