Foliation-based quantization and black hole information

TL;DR

This paper extends a foliation-based quantization method to more general backgrounds, offering new insights into the black hole information paradox by emphasizing boundary dynamics and asymptotic symmetries.

Contribution

It introduces a boundary condition and applies the quantization scheme to arbitrary backgrounds, highlighting the role of hypersurface degrees of freedom in black hole information.

Findings

Hypersurface degrees of freedom contribute to black hole 'hair'.

Transitions among excitations are central to information retrieval.

The quantization scheme clarifies the origin of the information paradox.

Abstract

We extend the foliation-based quantization scheme of \cite{Park:2014tia} to arbitrary asymptotically flat backgrounds including time- and position- dependent ones. One of the ingredients to accomplish the extension is imposition of a Neumann-type boundary condition. The quantization procedure, especially the gauge-fixing-induced reduction, provides a new insight into the black hole information paradox. The hypersurface degrees of freedom in the asymptotic region - whose dynamics should be responsible for part of the `hair' - and transitions among various excitations play a central role in the global formulation of the information and proposed solution of the information paradox. In retrospect, the quantization scheme reveals the origin of the difficulty of the information problem: the problem's ties with the quantization of gravity and subtle boundary dynamics as well as the multilayered techniques required for its setup and study. We also comment on the implications of the asymptotic symmetries for the present quantization framework.