23–26 May 2018
Murcia, Spain
Europe/Madrid timezone

Physics at the horizon - mind the cap !

24 May 2018, 09:30
40m
Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo (Murcia, Spain)

Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo

Murcia, Spain

Departamento de Fisica Campus de Espinardo E-30100 Murcia Spain

Speaker

Iosif Bena (IPhT CEA-Saclay)

Description

Black holes appear to lead to information loss, thus violating one of the fundamental tenets of Quantum Mechanics. Recent Information-Theory-based arguments imply that information loss can only be avoided if at the scale of the black hole horizon there exists a structure (commonly called fuzzball or firewall) that allows information to escape. I will discuss the highly-unusual properties that this structure must have and how these properties emerge in the realization of this structure in String Theory via branes, fluxes and topology. I will also describe the implication of this structure for AdS_2 holography.

Author

Iosif Bena (IPhT CEA-Saclay)

Presentation materials