A numerical approach to Virasoro blocks and the information paradox

Abstract We chart the breakdown of semiclassical gravity by analyzing the Virasoro conformal blocks to high numerical precision, focusing on the heavy-light limit correspond-ing to a light probe propagating in a BTZ black hole background. In the Lorentzian regime, we find empirically that the initia...

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Main Authors: Hongbin Chen, Charles Hussong, Jared Kaplan, Daliang Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-09-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP09(2017)102