Lecture 21: Paradoxes for large AdS Black Holes

In this lecture, we turned our attention to large black holes in asymptotically AdS spacetimes. These black holes are different from the evaporating black holes we have considered so far because they dominate the microcanonical ensemble above a given energy. This leads to a new set of paradoxes. We showed that if one assumes that degrees of freedom in the black hole interior are described by state-independent operators then this leads to a contradiction with the idea that typical states have a smooth interior.

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