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Page curve from dynamical branes in JT gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-02-15 v3

Abstract

We study the Page curve of an evaporating black hole using a toy model given by Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity with Fateev-Zamolodchikov-Zamolodchikov-Teschner (FZZT) antibranes. We treat the anti-FZZT branes as dynamical objects, taking their back-reaction into account. We construct the entanglement entropy from the dual matrix model and study its behavior as a function of the 't Hooft coupling tt proportional to the number of branes, which plays the role of time. By numerical computation we observe that the entropy first increases and then decreases as tt grows, reproducing the well-known behavior of the Page curve of an evaporating black hole. The system finally exhibits a phase transition, which may be viewed as the end of the evaporation. We study the critical behavior of the entropy near the phase transition. We also make a conjecture about the late-time monotonically decreasing behavior of the entropy. We prove it in a certain limit as well as give an intuitive explanation by means of the dual matrix model.

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@article{arxiv.2111.09551,
  title  = {Page curve from dynamical branes in JT gravity},
  author = {Kazumi Okuyama and Kazuhiro Sakai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09551},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

28 pages, v2: references and a footnote added, v3: some explanations added, typos corrected, published version

R2 v1 2026-06-24T07:43:09.188Z