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Do Typical States Have Firewalls?

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Does a typical state of black hole entangled with a second purifying system have a firewall? The answer is subtle and depends on what we mean by typical. There are a number of different situations.

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Susskind, L. (2020). Do Typical States Have Firewalls?. In: Three Lectures on Complexity and Black Holes. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45109-7_17

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