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arxiv: hep-th/0406130 · v2 · pith:HTGUOEMEnew · submitted 2004-06-15 · ✦ hep-th · cond-mat.stat-mech· gr-qc

Can Black Hole Relax Unitarily?

classification ✦ hep-th cond-mat.stat-mechgr-qc
keywords blackholecaserelaxationsemiclassicalunitaritybackboundary
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We review the way the BTZ black hole relaxes back to thermal equilibrium after a small perturbation and how it is seen in the boundary (finite volume) CFT. The unitarity requires the relaxation to be quasi-periodic. It is preserved in the CFT but is not obvious in the case of the semiclassical black hole the relaxation of which is driven by complex quasi-normal modes. We discuss two ways of modifying the semiclassical black hole geometry to maintain unitarity: the (fractal) brick wall and the worm-hole modification. In the latter case the entropy comes out correctly as well.

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