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General relativity has provided us with a superb understanding of the large-scale structure of black holes, however at the quantum level, general relativity becomes pathological and the quantum behaviour of black holes violates fundamental principles of quantum mechanics.
The Information Paradox provides one the sharpest illustrations of this conflict: black holes evaporate very slowly through Hawking radiation and, because this radiation originates from outside the horizon, the uniqueness theorems in general relativity imply that Hawking radiation is universal, and independent of how the black hole formed. Such an evolution cannot be represented as a unitary transformation of states in a Hilbert space and is therefore inconsistent with a foundational postulate of quantum mechanics.
Resolving the information paradox is going lead to a radical revision of our understanding of black-hole event horizons and change the way we think about the structure of space and time. Achieving this paradigm shift is the central goal of this this project.
Nicholas Warner
Iosif Bena
Ruben Minasian
Nejc Ceplak
Felicity Eperon
Bogdan Ganchev
Bin Guo
Shaun Hampton
Daniel Mayerson
Peng Cheng (PhD 2022)
Anthony Houppe (PhD 2023)
Pierre Heidmann (PhD 2020)
Yixuan Li (PhD 2022)
Dimitrios Toulikas
Robert Walker (PhD 2020)
Nicholas Warner
Iosif Bena
Ruben Minasian
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Paper of Raju and Papadodimas and Samir's comments can be found in the updated introduction
2020 Course of Superstrata Construction