IAS Fundamental Physics Seminar Series - Replica Wormhole and Black Hole Information Paradox

Abstract
The speaker will review the recent progress of using wormhole geometries to understand Hawking’s black hole information paradox. The basic point is that wormhole predicts exponential small corrections between spatially separated bulk states in the black hole interior as seen from asymptotic observers. This leads to order-one corrected quantum mechanical effects for old evaporating black holes.