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Black hole collapse in the 1/c expansion

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Anous, Tarek, Hartman, Thomas, Rovai, Antonin, Sonner, Julian·2016·Journal of High Energy Physics
DOI 10.1007/jhep07(2016)123
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We present a first-principles CFT calculation corresponding to the spherical collapse of a shell of matter in three dimensional quantum gravity. In field theory terms, we describe the equilibration process, from early times to thermalization, of a CFT following a sudden injection of energy at time t = 0. By formulating a continuum version of Zamolodchikov’s monodromy method to calculate conformal blocks at large central charge c, we give a framework to compute a general class of probe observables in the collapse state, incorporating the full backreaction of matter fields on the dual geometry. This is illustrated by calculating a scalar field two-point function at time-like separation and the time-dependent entanglement entropy of an interval, both showing thermalization at late times. The results are in perfect agreement with previous gravity calculations in the AdS3-Vaidya geometry. Information loss appears in the CFT as an explicit violation of unitarity in the 1/c expansion, restored by nonperturbative corrections.

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Authors
Anous, T., Hartman, T., Rovai, A., & Sonner, J.
Affiliations
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • Cornell University (US)
  • University of Geneva (CH)
Corresponding author
Sonner, Julian
ORCID
Venue
Journal of High Energy Physics
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2016-07
Volume
2016
Issue
7
ISSN
1029-8479 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1007/jhep07(2016)123
OpenAlex
W2301702461
Cited by
130
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9.67
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journal article
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en
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  • Journal of High Energy Physics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (publishedVersion)
  • Queen Mary Research Online (Queen Mary University of London) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (No.NSF PHY11-25915, PHY11- 25915, 141869, NSF PHY-11-25915, 25915, DE-SC0012567, 0967299)
  • U.S. Department of Energy (NSF PHY11-25915, DESC0012567, DESC0014123)
  • Belgian American Educational Foundation
  • National Centres of Competence in Research SwissMAP
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (51NF40, 141869, 25915, 162796, 200021)
  • Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara (PHY-11-25915, NSF PHY11-25915)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Geometry and Topology › Algebraic structures and combinatorial models
Keywords
black hole collapse, 1/c expansion, large central charge, conformal field theory, conformal blocks, thermalization, entanglement entropy, information loss, unitarity violation, backreaction, three-dimensional quantum gravity

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