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We introduce a new holographic map for encoding black hole interiors by including both fundamental and effective dynamics. This holographic map is constructed by evolving a state in the effective, semiclassical gravity description of the interior backwards in time to pull the degrees of freedom outside the black hole, before evolving forwards in time in the fundamental description. We show this “backwards-forwards” map is equivalent to a post-selection map of the type introduced by Akers, Engelhardt, Harlow, Penington, and Vardhan, and in the case of trivial effective interactions reduces to their model, while providing a suitable generalization when those interactions are nontrivial. We show the map is equivariant with respect to time evolution, and independent of any interactions outside the black hole. This construction includes interactions with an infaller in a way that preserves the unitarity of black hole evolution exactly and does not allow for superpolynomial computational complexity.
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We are grateful to Sristy Agrawal, Chris Akers, Daniel Harlow, Joshua Levin, and Graeme Smith for helpful discussions. The authors are supported by the Department of Energy under grants DE-SC0010005 and DE-SC0020360.
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DeWolfe, O., Higginbotham, K. Non-isometric codes for the black hole interior from fundamental and effective dynamics. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 68 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2023)068
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