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Black Holes in the Label Framework: Collapse, Streams, Vacuum Cores and the Label Count

Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: In the label framework, matter is a field of comoving labels with volume-preserving relabellings. We collect the framework's results on black holes. A homogeneous ball of label dust collapses as in the Oppenheimer–Snyder solution, and its labels reach the centre inside the horizon. When dust shells cross, no label is created: each keeps its shell. Four-label vacua with different effective cosmological constants cannot be joined across a static spherical interface without a wall. Under horizon equilibrium and a premise on the entanglement entropy, the coefficient 1/4 fixes a lattice step a≈0.31√N Planck lengths for N minimally coupled massless scalars. The step counts no label states. If label matter is quantised on embeddings, a classical argument shows that labels of single-stream dust cannot leave a hole by radiation. Evaporation then ends in a remnant unless the unsigned label count is not conserved. Microstates, unitarity and the singularity are not reached.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225394182
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