Does Gravity Render Probability Quasilocal?

TL;DR

This paper argues that gravity influences quantum probability to become a quasilocal concept, with gravitational boundaries affecting probability conservation and leading to observable effects in black hole phenomena.

Contribution

It introduces a framework where gravitational boundaries turn global probability conservation into a flux law, linking quantum probability to spacetime geometry.

Findings

Probability becomes quasilocal in curved spacetime.

Black hole ringdowns show observational imprints of this effect.

Abstract

We propose that probability in quantum theory, like energy in general relativity, acquires a fundamentally quasilocal character in curved spacetime. Interpreting Hermiticity as the symmetry associated with inner-product conservation, we show that gravitational boundaries and horizons convert global probability conservation into a flux balance law. The resulting quasilocal probability naturally induces effective non-Hermiticity for restricted observers while preserving global unitarity. We demonstrate this explicitly in Schwarzschild, Kerr and FLRW spacetimes and after this, we identify observational imprints in black hole ringdowns. Our results suggest that in quantum field theory on curved backgrounds, probability conservation is as geometrically conditioned as energy itself.