(Half) Wormholes under Irrelevant Deformation

Abstract

Recently it has been shown by Almheiri and Lin [1] that the reconstruction of black-hole interior is sensitive to knowing the exact coupling of the boundary theory even if the coupling is irrelevant. This motivates us to enlarge the set of the one-time and two-time toy models inspired from the SYK by deforming the same with \textit{irrelevant} coupling. We find that both half-wormholes as well as the wormholes persist in presence of the deformation, leading to a similar mechanism for curing the factorization problem. While for the one time case, the deformed partition function and its moments change by an overall factor, which can completely be absorbed into a renormalization of coupling, for the two time (or coupled one time) SYK we find non-trivial dynamics of the saddles as the couplings are varied. Curiously, the \textit{irrelevant} deformations that we consider can also be thought of as an ensemble average over an overall scaling of the original undeformed Hamiltionian with an appropriate probability distribution, this allows for the possibility that half-wormholes may also be present in suitably defined ensemble of theories.

15 pages+ Appendix, 5 figures

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