Speaker
Larus Thorlacius
Description
Hawking's information paradox arises when one
considers the formation and subsequent evaporation of
a black hole. It pits quantum mechanical unitarity against
locality in spacetime and highlights the incompatibility
between the world view offered by general relativity and
that of quantum physics. In a gravity theory with a
gauge theory dual, the information paradox must be
resolved in favor of unitary evolution. The challenge is
then to identify the non-local effects that implement
unitarity on the gravity side.
