Non-Thermal Corrections to Hawking Radiation Versus the Information Paradox

TL;DR

This paper argues that non-thermal deviations in Hawking radiation are significant enough to resolve the black hole information paradox, challenging previous assumptions of negligible corrections.

Contribution

It presents a model-independent argument showing non-thermal deviations are of order 1/N, undermining the basis of the information paradox.

Findings

Non-thermal deviations are of order 1/N for a black hole of entropy N.

Such deviations are much larger than previously thought, of order exp(-N).

This challenges the standard understanding of the information paradox.

Abstract

We provide a model-independent argument indicating that for a black hole of entropy N the non-thermal deviations from Hawking radiation, per each emission time, are of order 1/N, as opposed to exp(-N). This fact abolishes the standard a priory basis for the information paradox.