2D CFT partition functions at late times

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DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2017)075zbMATH Open1381.83061arXiv1611.04592WikidataQ112153770 ScholiaQ112153770MaRDI QIDQ1700144FDOQ1700144

Ethan Dyer, Guy Gur-Ari

Publication date: 2 March 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the late time behavior of the analytically continued partition function in holographic 2d CFTs. This is a probe of information loss in such theories and in their holographic duals. We show that each Virasoro character decays in time, and so information is not restored at the level of individual characters. We identify a universal decaying contribution at late times, and conjecture that it describes the behavior of generic chaotic 2d CFTs out to times that are exponentially large in the central charge. It was recently suggested that at sufficiently late times one expects a crossover to random matrix behavior. We estimate an upper bound on the crossover time, which suggests that the decay is followed by a parametrically long period of late time growth. Finally, we discuss integrable theories and show how information is restored at late times by a series of characters. This hints at a possible bulk mechanism, where information is restored by an infinite sum over non-perturbative saddles.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04592





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