Massive islands

Jun 16, 2020
19 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 09 (2020) 121
  • Published: Sep 17, 2020
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We comment on the role of the graviton mass in recent calculations of the Page curve using holographic ideas. All reliable calculations of the Page curve in more than 2+1 spacetime dimensions have been performed in systems with massive gravitons. A crucial ingredient in these calculations is the formation of islands, regions that contribute to the entropy of degrees of freedom located elsewhere. While most often simply ignored, it is indeed true that mass of the graviton does not appear to significantly affect the calculations that appeared in the literature. We use the freedom to change the graviton mass to give an extremely simple model of analytically tractable island formation in general dimensions. We do however note that if one attempts to take the limit of zero graviton mass, any contribution from the islands disappears. This raises the question to what extent entanglement islands can play a role in standard massless gravity.
Note:
  • 17 pages, 2 figures, discussion of boundary conditions modified, results unchanged
  • AdS-CFT Correspondence
  • Black Holes
  • Black Holes in String Theory
  • Con- formal Field Models in String Theory
  • mass: gravitation
  • graviton: mass
  • gravitation: massive
  • graviton: massive
  • space-time: dimension: 3
  • formation