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Phys. Rev. Lett. 44, 301–304 (1980)

Is Black-Hole Evaporation Predictable?

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Don N. Page
Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802

Received 13 November 1979; published in the issue dated 4 February 1980

If black-hole formation and evaporation can be described by a superscattering operator which is CPT invariant, then it can be described by an S matrix which maps pure initial states into pure final states. Thus black holes may be in principle no more unpredictable than other quantum phenomena.

© 1980 The American Physical Society

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