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Topology of black hole phase transition in JT gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-01-22 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present a JT gravity setup coupled with U(1)U(1) and SU(2)SU(2) Yang-Mills fields in two dimensions that reveals the onset of a small black hole to large black hole phase transition at finite chemical potential(s). We identify these black hole solutions as topological defects in the thermodynamic phase space and calculate the associated topological numbers following the standard procedure. We confirm the robustness of our model by estimating perturbative corrections to the bulk free energy at an arbitrary order in the Yang-Mills coupling. We also construct the Schwarzian for the boundary theory using the 2D gravitational action in the bulk and comment on the dual SYK like model where similar observations can be made.

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@article{arxiv.2410.00744,
  title  = {Topology of black hole phase transition in JT gravity},
  author = {Hemant Rathi and Dibakar Roychowdhury},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.00744},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in PLB, New references have been added, 16 pages, 3 figures