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arxiv: 1207.6626 · v4 · pith:C7U63RZZnew · submitted 2012-07-27 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc

Complementarity Endures: No Firewall for an Infalling Observer

classification ✦ hep-th gr-qc
keywords firewallobserverquantumclassicalcomplementarityhorizoninfallingparadox
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We argue that the complementarity picture, as interpreted as a reference frame change represented in quantum gravitational Hilbert space, does not suffer from the "firewall paradox" recently discussed by Almheiri, Marolf, Polchinski, and Sully. A quantum state described by a distant observer evolves unitarily, with the evolution law well approximated by semi-classical field equations in the region away from the (stretched) horizon. And yet, a classical infalling observer does not see a violation of the equivalence principle, and thus a firewall, at the horizon. The resolution of the paradox lies in careful considerations on how a (semi-)classical world arises in unitary quantum mechanics describing the whole universe/multiverse.

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