An apologia for firewalls

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Almheiri, Ahmed ^a   Marolf, Donald ^a   Polchinski, Joseph ^a,b   Stanford, Douglas ^a,b,c   Sully, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Holes; Black Holes in String Theory; Gauge gravity correspondence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883748712     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2013)018     Document Type: Article

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