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The black hole information problem: past, present, and future
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We give a brief overview of the black hole information problem emphasizing fundamental issues and recent proposals for its resolution. The focus is on broad perspective and providing a guide to current literature rather than presenting full details. We concentrate on resolutions restoring naive unitarity.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Marolf, D.
- Affiliations
- University of California System (US)
- Corresponding author
- Marolf, Donald
- ORCID
- Marolf, Donald
- Venue
- Reports on Progress in Physics
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2017-07-21
- Volume
- 80
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 092001
- ISSN
- 0034-4885 (ISSN-L)
- 1361-6633
- OpenAlex
- W2594883733
- Cited by
- 205
- References
- 88
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 42 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 5
- FWCI
- 14.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Reports on Progress in Physics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- University of California (N/A)
- U.S. National Science Foundation (PHY 1504541)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
- Keywords
- black hole information paradox, black hole complementarity, unitarity, black hole thermodynamics, Hawking radiation, black hole evaporation, quantum information in black holes
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