Holography Abhors Visible Trapped Surfaces

ORAL

Abstract

In this talk, I will explain how the consistency of the holographic dictionary implies a hallmark prediction of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture: that in classical gravity, trapped surfaces lie behind event horizons. We will see that causal wedge inclusion requires the formation of event horizons outside of strong gravity regions. Few assumptions are made beyond the absence of evaporating singularities in strictly classical gravity. Finally, I comment on the implication that spacetimes with naked trapped surfaces do not admit a holographic dual and speculate on the dual CFT interpretation of a trapped surface.

*This work is supported in part by NSF grant no. PHY-2011905 and the MIT department of physics. The work of NE is also supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics of U.S. Department of Energy under grant Contract Number DE-SC0012567 (High Energy Theory research). The work of AF is also supported in part by an Aker Scholarship.

Authors

  • Aasmund Folkestad

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT
  • Netta Engelhardt

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT