Replica wormholes and the entropy of Hawking radiation

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DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2020)013zbMATH Open1437.83084arXiv1911.12333OpenAlexW2991362355MaRDI QIDQ779291FDOQ779291

Edgar Shaghoulian, Juan Maldacena, Thomas E. Hartman, Amirhossein Tajdini, Ahmed Almheiri

Publication date: 21 July 2020

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

Abstract: The information paradox can be realized in anti-de Sitter spacetime joined to a Minkowski region. In this setting, we show that the large discrepancy between the von Neumann entropy as calculated by Hawking and the requirements of unitarity is fixed by including new saddles in the gravitational path integral. These saddles arise in the replica method as complexified wormholes connecting different copies of the black hole. As the replica number no1, the presence of these wormholes leads to the island rule for the computation of the fine-grained gravitational entropy. We discuss these replica wormholes explicitly in two-dimensional Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity coupled to matter.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12333




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