Journal of High Energy Physics (Aug 2023)

Pole-skipping points in 2D gravity and SYK model

  • Haiming Yuan,
  • Xian-Hui Ge,
  • Keun-Young Kim,
  • Chang-Woo Ji,
  • Yong jun Ahn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2023)157
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2023, no. 8
pp. 1 – 25

Abstract

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Abstract We represent the first investigation of pole-skipping on both the gravity and field theory sides. In contrast to the higher dimensional models, there is no momentum degree of freedom in (1 + 1)−dimensional bulk theory. Thus, we then consider a scalar field mass as our degree of freedom for the pole-skipping phenomenon instead of momentum. The pole-skipping frequencies of the scalar field in 2D gravity are the same as higher dimensional cases: ω = −i2πTn for positive integers n. At each of these frequencies, there is a corresponding pole-skipping mass, so the pole-skipping points exist in (ω, m) space. We also compute the pole-skipping points of the SYK model in (ω, h) space where h is the dimension of the bilinear primary operator. We find that there is a one-to-one correspondence of the pole-skipping points between the JT gravity and the SYK model. To obtain the pole-skipping points, we need to consider the parameter ϵ related to the chemical potential on the horizon of charged JT gravity and the particle-hole asymmetric parameter E $$ \mathcal{E} $$ of the complex SYK model as shift parameters. This highlights the ϵ − E $$ \mathcal{E} $$ correspondence in relation to pole-skipping phenomenon.

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