English

Bouncing inside the horizon and scrambling delays

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-11-23 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study charged perturbations of the thermofield double state dual to a charged AdS black hole. We model the perturbation by a massless charged shell in the bulk. Unlike the neutral case, all such shells bounce at a definite radius, which can be behind the horizon. We show that the standard "shock wave" calculation of a scrambling time indicates that adding charge increases the scrambling time. We then give two arguments using the bounce that suggest that scrambling does not actually take longer when charge is added, but instead its onset is delayed. We also construct a boundary four point function which detects whether the shell bounces inside the black hole.

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@article{arxiv.2207.10679,
  title  = {Bouncing inside the horizon and scrambling delays},
  author = {Gary T. Horowitz and Henry Leung and Leonel Queimada and Ying Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.10679},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

34 pages, 14 figures; v2: a few comments added. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2202.04661

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