Journal of High Energy Physics (Jul 2020)

Action complexity for semi-classical black holes

  • Lukas Schneiderbauer,
  • Watse Sybesma,
  • Lárus Thorlacius

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2020)173
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020, no. 7
pp. 1 – 28

Abstract

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Abstract We adapt the complexity as action prescription (CA) to a semi-classical model of two-dimensional dilaton gravity and determine the rate of increase of holographic complexity for an evaporating black hole. The results are consistent with our previous numerical results for semi-classical black hole complexity using a volume prescription (CV) in the same model, but the CA calculation is fully analytic and provides a non-trivial positive test for the holographic representation of the black hole interior.

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