Holography abhors visible trapped surfaces
Abstract
We prove that consistency of the holographic dictionary implies a hallmark prediction of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture: that in classical gravity, trapped surfaces lie behind event horizons. In particular, the existence of a trapped surface implies the existence of an event horizon, and that furthermore this event horizon must be outside of the trapped surface. More precisely, we show that the formation of event horizons outside of a strong gravity region is a direct consequence of causal wedge inclusion, which is required by entanglement wedge reconstruction. We make few assumptions beyond the absence of evaporating singularities in strictly classical gravity. We comment on the implication that spacetimes with naked trapped surfaces do not admit a holographic dual, note a possible application to holographic complexity, and speculate on the dual CFT interpretation of a trapped surface.
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Center for Theoretical Physics
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- Research Org.:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1851675
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012567; PHY-2011905
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2021; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; physics; AdS-CFT correspondence; black holes; spacetime singularities
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Engelhardt, Netta, and Folkestad, Åsmund. Holography abhors visible trapped surfaces. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1007/jhep07(2021)066.
Engelhardt, Netta, & Folkestad, Åsmund. Holography abhors visible trapped surfaces. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07(2021)066
Engelhardt, Netta, and Folkestad, Åsmund. Mon .
"Holography abhors visible trapped surfaces". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07(2021)066. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1851675.
@article{osti_1851675,
title = {Holography abhors visible trapped surfaces},
author = {Engelhardt, Netta and Folkestad, Åsmund},
abstractNote = {We prove that consistency of the holographic dictionary implies a hallmark prediction of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture: that in classical gravity, trapped surfaces lie behind event horizons. In particular, the existence of a trapped surface implies the existence of an event horizon, and that furthermore this event horizon must be outside of the trapped surface. More precisely, we show that the formation of event horizons outside of a strong gravity region is a direct consequence of causal wedge inclusion, which is required by entanglement wedge reconstruction. We make few assumptions beyond the absence of evaporating singularities in strictly classical gravity. We comment on the implication that spacetimes with naked trapped surfaces do not admit a holographic dual, note a possible application to holographic complexity, and speculate on the dual CFT interpretation of a trapped surface.},
doi = {10.1007/jhep07(2021)066},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 7,
volume = 2021,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Mon Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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