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Low-temperature entropy in JT gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-06-30 v1

Abstract

For ensembles of Hamiltonians that fall under the Dyson classification of random matrices with β{1,2,4}\beta \in \{1,2,4\}, the low-temperature mean entropy can be shown to vanish as S(T)κTβ+1\langle S(T)\rangle\sim \kappa T^{\beta+1}. A similar relation holds for Altland-Zirnbauer ensembles. JT gravity has been shown to be dual to the double-scaling limit of a β=2\beta =2 ensemble, with a classical eigenvalue density eS0E\propto e^{S_0}\sqrt{E} when 0<E10 < E \ll 1. We use universal results about the distribution of the smallest eigenvalues in such ensembles to calculate κ\kappa up to corrections that we argue are doubly exponentially small in S0S_0.

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@article{arxiv.2103.03896,
  title  = {Low-temperature entropy in JT gravity},
  author = {Oliver Janssen and Mehrdad Mirbabayi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.03896},
  year   = {2021}
}

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17 pages

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