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A Role for the Fauxrizon in the Semiclassical Limit of a Fuzzball

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Mike D. Schneider*
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Abstract

Recent work on the status of astrophysical modeling in the wake of quantum gravity indicates that a “fauxrizon” (a portmanteau of faux horizon), such as is relevant to understanding astrophysical black holes according to the fuzzball proposal within string theory, might ultimately solve the familiar black hole evaporation paradox. I clarify, with general upshots for the foundations of quantum gravity research, some of what this suggestion would amount to: identification of intertheoretic constraints on global spacetime structure in (observer-relative) semiclassical models of fuzzballs.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 91 , Issue 1 , January 2024 , pp. 225 - 242
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Science Association

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