{ "id": "hep-th/0310281", "version": "v2", "published": "2003-10-30T15:41:07.000Z", "updated": "2003-12-01T18:49:39.000Z", "title": "The black hole final state", "authors": [ "Gary T. Horowitz", "Juan Maldacena" ], "comment": "17 pages, harvmac, 1 figure, v2: comment about interactions and references added", "journal": "JHEP 0402:008,2004", "doi": "10.1088/1126-6708/2004/02/008", "categories": [ "hep-th" ], "abstract": "We propose that in quantum gravity one needs to impose a final state boundary condition at black hole singularities. This resolves the apparent contradiction between string theory and semiclassical arguments over whether black hole evaporation is unitary.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v2", "updated": "2003-12-01T18:49:39.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "black hole final state", "final state boundary condition", "black hole singularities", "black hole evaporation", "quantum gravity" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "IOP", "journal": "Journal of High Energy Physics", "year": 2004, "month": "Feb", "volume": 2004, "number": 2, "pages": "008" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 17, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 631900, "adsabs": "2004JHEP...02..008H" } } }