A Quantum Complexity Approach to the Problem of Weak Cosmic Censorship

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Published on April 15, 2024 11:34:25 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSR5SA2aII0

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Netta Engelhardt (MIT)
https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/netta-engelhardt-mit-2024-03-22
Quantum Complexity: Quantum PCP; Area Laws; and Quantum Gravity

I’ll motivate and describe the conjecture of weak cosmic censorship — that singularities resulting from gravitational collapse always lie behind event horizons. This conjecture is false in its standard classical formulation, but I’ll argue that there exists a partial quantum analogue that can be proved using complexity theoretic arguments.