Complémentarité des trous noirsBlack hole complementarity is a conjectured solution to the black hole information paradox, proposed by Leonard Susskind, Larus Thorlacius, and Gerard 't Hooft. Ever since Stephen Hawking suggested information is lost in an evaporating black hole once it passes through the event horizon and is inevitably destroyed at the singularity, and that this can turn pure quantum states into mixed states, some physicists have wondered if a complete theory of quantum gravity might be able to conserve information with a unitary time evolution.
Linear time-invariant systemIn system analysis, among other fields of study, a linear time-invariant (LTI) system is a system that produces an output signal from any input signal subject to the constraints of linearity and time-invariance; these terms are briefly defined below. These properties apply (exactly or approximately) to many important physical systems, in which case the response y(t) of the system to an arbitrary input x(t) can be found directly using convolution: y(t) = (x ∗ h)(t) where h(t) is called the system's impulse response and ∗ represents convolution (not to be confused with multiplication).
Système linéaireUn système linéaire (le terme système étant pris au sens de l'automatique, à savoir un système dynamique) est un objet du monde matériel qui peut être décrit par des équations linéaires (équations linéaires différentielles ou aux différences), ou encore qui obéit au principe de superposition : toute combinaison linéaire des variables de ce système est encore une variable de ce système. Les systèmes non linéaires sont plus difficiles à étudier que les systèmes linéaires.