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Boundary correlators and the Schwarzian mode

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-01-26 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The effective low temperature dynamics of near-extremal black holes is governed by the quantum fluctuations of the Schwarzian mode of JT gravity. Utilizing as a proxy a planar charged black hole in asymptotically Anti-de-Sitter spacetime, we investigate the effects of these fluctuations on a probe scalar field. The corresponding holographic real-time boundary correlators are computed following a holographic renormalization procedure, using the dubbed gravitational Schwinger-Keldysh geometry (grSK) and known exact results of boundary correlators from the near-horizon region. This analysis gives rise to a retarded Green's function that decays as a power law for late Lorentzian times. Its analytic structure indicates the presence of a branch cut in the complex frequency domain at finite temperature. These features are a non-perturbative hallmark that prevails as long as the planar transverse space is kept compact.

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@article{arxiv.2310.19885,
  title  = {Boundary correlators and the Schwarzian mode},
  author = {Lucas Daguerre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.19885},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

23 pages + Appendices, 5 figures. v2 and v3: minor corrections

R2 v1 2026-06-28T13:06:30.287Z