arXiv:1402.4545 · Physics Letters B

Black hole complementarity: The inside view

David A. Lowe, Lárus Thorlacius A

Published Sep 2, 2014• 18 citations

Abstract

Within the framework of black hole complementarity, a proposal is made for an approximate interior effective field theory description. For generic correlators of local operators on generic black hole states, it agrees with the exact exterior description in a region of overlapping validity, up to corrections that are too small to be measured by typical infalling observers.

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.08.062

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