Is the horizon of an eternal black hole really smooth?

Abstract We point out that in many eternal black holes, including a Schwarzschild eternal black hole and an eternal black hole in AdS 5, instant folded strings are created in the past wedge and render the region just outside the horizon singular. We also make a conjecture regarding instant folded D-...

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Main Author: Nissan Itzhaki
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Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2023-05-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2023)157
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description Abstract We point out that in many eternal black holes, including a Schwarzschild eternal black hole and an eternal black hole in AdS 5, instant folded strings are created in the past wedge and render the region just outside the horizon singular. We also make a conjecture regarding instant folded D-branes and discuss their possible implications for eternal black holes. In particular, we argue that the bulk modes responsible for Poincare recurrence, when it occurs in the dual quantum field theory, are either instant folded strings or instant folded D-branes.
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spelling doaj.art-ff6d0775992a4d5e82dfd573e8154d122023-08-27T11:05:31ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792023-05-012023511810.1007/JHEP05(2023)157Is the horizon of an eternal black hole really smooth?Nissan Itzhaki0School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv UniversityAbstract We point out that in many eternal black holes, including a Schwarzschild eternal black hole and an eternal black hole in AdS 5, instant folded strings are created in the past wedge and render the region just outside the horizon singular. We also make a conjecture regarding instant folded D-branes and discuss their possible implications for eternal black holes. In particular, we argue that the bulk modes responsible for Poincare recurrence, when it occurs in the dual quantum field theory, are either instant folded strings or instant folded D-branes.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2023)157Black Holes in String TheoryLong Strings
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Is the horizon of an eternal black hole really smooth?
Journal of High Energy Physics
Black Holes in String Theory
Long Strings
title Is the horizon of an eternal black hole really smooth?
title_full Is the horizon of an eternal black hole really smooth?
title_fullStr Is the horizon of an eternal black hole really smooth?
title_full_unstemmed Is the horizon of an eternal black hole really smooth?
title_short Is the horizon of an eternal black hole really smooth?
title_sort is the horizon of an eternal black hole really smooth
topic Black Holes in String Theory
Long Strings
url https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2023)157
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