Global symmetry, Euclidean gravity, and the black hole information problem

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10539v2
• Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 03:54:14 GMT
• Title: Global symmetry, Euclidean gravity, and the black hole information problem
• Authors: Daniel Harlow and Edgar Shaghoulian
• Abstract summary: We argue for a close connection between the non-existence of global symmetries in quantum gravity and a unitary resolution of the black hole information problem. Motivated by this discussion, we conjecture that in a certain sense Euclidean quantum gravity is equivalent to holography.
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• Abstract: In this paper we argue for a close connection between the non-existence of global symmetries in quantum gravity and a unitary resolution of the black hole information problem. In particular we show how the essential ingredients of recent calculations of the Page curve of an evaporating black hole can be used to generalize a recent argument against global symmetries beyond the AdS/CFT correspondence to more realistic theories of quantum gravity. We also give several low-dimensional examples of quantum gravity theories which do not have a unitary resolution of the black hole information problem in the usual sense, and which therefore can and do have global symmetries. Motivated by this discussion, we conjecture that in a certain sense Euclidean quantum gravity is equivalent to holography.

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