Universal construction of black hole microstates

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

Ana Climent, 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.