Journal of High Energy Physics (Sep 2024)

New horizon symmetries, hydrodynamics, and quantum chaos

  • Maria Knysh,
  • Hong Liu,
  • Natalia Pinzani-Fokeeva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2024)162
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2024, no. 9
pp. 1 – 36

Abstract

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Abstract We generalize the formulation of horizon symmetries presented in previous literature to include diffeomorphisms that can shift the location of the horizon. In the context of the AdS/CFT duality, we show that horizon symmetries can be interpreted on the boundary as emergent low-energy gauge symmetries. In particular, we identify a new class of horizon symmetries that extend the so-called shift symmetry, which was previously postulated for effective field theories of maximally chaotic systems. Additionally, we comment on the connections of horizon symmetries with bulk calculations of out-of-time-ordered correlation functions and the phenomenon of pole-skipping.

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