Wormholes and out-of-time ordered correlators in gauge/gravity duality
Abstract
We calculate the four-wave scattering amplitude in the background of an AdS traversable wormhole in 2+1 dimensions created by a nonlocal coupling of AdS boundaries in the BTZ black hole background. The holographic dual of this setup is a pair of CFTs coupled via a double-trace deformation, the scattering amplitude giving the out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC) in CFT. Short-living wormholes always exhibit a regime of fast scrambling, saturating the MSS bound for the Lyapunov exponent but in the early-time regime the scrambling can be slower, with a Lyapunov exponent linear in but below the MSS bound. For long-living (near-eternal) wormholes however the numerics suggests the existence of another regime, with a drastic (exponential) slowdown of scrambling and an exponentially small Lyapunov exponent. Our findings have parallels in the SYK model, and may indicate certain limitations of wormhole teleportation protocols previously studied in the literature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2103.01372,
title = {Wormholes and out-of-time ordered correlators in gauge/gravity duality},
author = {Mihailo Čubrović},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.01372},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
36 pages, 5 figures; this version: major revision of the paper (clarified discussion on the metric, propagators and OTOC definition; corrected error in computing the scattering amplitude in Section 3, updated references)