Universal construction of black hole microstates

20 Feb 2025
Seminars and colloquia
Time
Venue
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
Beecroft Building, Department of Physics, 91探花, Parks Road, 91探花, OX1 3PU
Speaker(s)

, ICC, Barcelona U.

Seminar series
Dalitz seminar
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Abstract

It has been recently proposed that it is possible to build microstates for two-sided Schwarzschild black holes by employing matter shells in the interior of the black hole. This procedure seemingly produces an arbitrarily large number of different microstates, creating a tension with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy calculation which is solved by considering Euclidean wormholes. In this talk, I will argue that this construction is completely universal, and it can be extended to charged and rotating black holes, including the extremal and near-extremal solutions.