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This paper summarizes recent discussions of the Page curve and the information paradox, and responds to the reasoning and examples from arXiv:2506.04311. We review arguments demonstrating that in quantum gravity the algebra of observables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-09 Hao Geng , Andreas Karch , Carlos Perez-Pardavila , Suvrat Raju , Lisa Randall , Marcos Riojas

In the context of noncommutative black holes, we reconsider the island rule and reproduce the Page curve. Since the radiation entropy of the noncommutative black hole will eventually diverge in the absence of islands, it is crucial to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Yipeng Liu , Wei Xu , Baocheng Zhang

Entanglement islands are subregions in a gravitational universe whose information is fully encoded in a disconnected non-gravitational system away from it. In the context of the black hole information paradox, entanglement islands state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Hao Geng

Recent discovery of the fine-grained entropy formula in gravity succeeded in reconstructing the Page curves that are compatible with unitary evolution. The formula of generalized entropy derived from the gravitational path integration,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-15 Xuanhua Wang , Kun Zhang , Jin Wang

A quantum extremal island suggests that a region of spacetime is encoded in the quantum state of another system, like the encoding of the black hole interior in Hawking radiation. We study conditions for islands to appear in general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-24 Thomas Hartman , Yikun Jiang , Edgar Shaghoulian

The island paradigm for the fine-grained entropy of Hawking radiation is applied to eternal charged accelerating black holes. In the absence of the island, the entanglement entropy grows linearly and divergent at late times, while once the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-04 Ming-Hui Yu , Xian-Hui Ge , Cheng-Yuan Lu

We study the Page curve and information paradox for Kerr AdS black hole in light of entanglement entropy by employing the recently proposed island paradigm. By incorporating the island rule, we show that the entanglement entropy of Kerr AdS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Digen Das , Mozib Bin Awal , Prabwal Phukon

We initiate the study of the information paradox of rotating Kerr black holes by employing the recently proposed island rule. It is known that the scalar field theory near the Kerr black hole horizon can be reduced to the 2-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-24 Liqiang Wang , Ran Li

The entanglement entropy of the Hawking radiation contains contributions from a region inside the black hole, which is called islands, implying that the Hawking radiation contains the information of islands. The boundary of the island is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Yoshinori Matsuo

Recently it was proposed that the entanglement entropy of the Hawking radiation contains the information of a region including the interior of the event horizon, which is called "island." In studies of the entanglement entropy of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Yoshinori Matsuo

We study the time evolution of the entanglement entropy of Hawking radiation in the $(n+1)-$dimensional Kerr-Newman black hole evaporation by the holographic approach that considering the $(n+1)-$dimensional AdS eternal black brane coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-13 Po-Chun Sun

Placing a black hole in a cavity provides a natural framework for exploring gravitational scales, thermodynamic instabilities, and effective gravity theories. In this paper, we examine the evolution of entanglement entropy and entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-23 Dmitry S. Ageev , Irina Ya. Aref'eva , Timofei A. Rusalev

The Fabbri-Russo model is a generalized model of a two-dimensional dilaton gravity theory with various parameters "$n$" describing various specific gravities. Particularly, the Russo-Susskind-Thorlacius gravity model fits the case $n=1$. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Ming-Hui Yu , Xian-Hui Ge

We use the notion of double holography to study Hawking radiation emitted by the eternal BTZ black hole in equilibrium with a thermal bath, but in the form of warped CFT$_2$ degrees of freedom. In agreement with the literature, we find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-22 Elena Caceres , Arnab Kundu , Ayan K. Patra , Sanjit Shashi

The role played by the mutual information of subsystems on the Page curve is explored in this paper. With the total system consisting of the black hole and radiation, together with the inclusion of island, we observe that the vanishing of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Ashis Saha , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Jyoti Prasad Saha

Exploring the inverse problem tied to the Page curve phenomenon and island paradigm, we investigate the geometric conditions underpinning black hole evaporation where information is preserved and islands manifest, giving rise to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-16 Ming-Hui Yu , Xian-Hui Ge

We explore the entanglement evolution of boundary intervals in eternal Janus black holes that can be embedded consistently into string theory in the low-energy limit. By studying the geodesics we show that there is a transition in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-28 Dongsu Bak , Chanju Kim , Sang-Heon Yi , Junggi Yoon

In this paper, the information paradox on lower-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity known as a three-dimensional EGB black hole is studied using the quantum extremal island approach. For that, we connect an auxiliary flat bath system to this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 Ankit Anand

We apply the recently proposed quantum extremal surface construction to calculate the Page curve of the eternal Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes in four dimensions ignoring the backreaction and the greybody factor. Without the island, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Xuanhua Wang , Ran Li , Jin Wang

We consider the entanglement island in a deformed Jackiw-Teitelboim black hole in the presence of the phase transition. This black hole has the van der Waals-Maxwell-like phase structure as it is coupled with a Maxwell field. We study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-29 Cheng-Yuan Lu , Ming-Hui Yu , Xian-Hui Ge , Li-Jun Tian