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Real-time gravitational replicas: Low dimensional examples

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-08-10 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We continue the study of real-time replica wormholes initiated in arXiv:2012.00828. Previously, we had discussed the general principles and had outlined a variational principle for obtaining stationary points of the real-time gravitational path integral. In the current work we present several explicit examples in low-dimensional gravitational theories where the dynamics is amenable to analytic computation. We demonstrate the computation of R\'enyi entropies in the cases of JT gravity and for holographic two-dimensional CFTs (using the dual gravitational dynamics). In particular, we explain how to obtain the large central charge result for subregions comprising of disjoint intervals directly from the real-time path integral.

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@article{arxiv.2105.07002,
  title  = {Real-time gravitational replicas: Low dimensional examples},
  author = {Sean Colin-Ellerin and Xi Dong and Donald Marolf and Mukund Rangamani and Zhencheng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.07002},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

53 pages, 11 figures. v2: clarifications for JT example, fixed typos

R2 v1 2026-06-24T02:07:36.035Z