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Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar: JT gravity with defects and the Aharonov-Bohm effect

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
The Physics Department & The Math Department
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Feb 18, 2021   11:00 am  
Speaker
Kenta Suzuki (Ecole Polytechnique)
Contact
Janice Benner
E-Mail
jbenner@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Physics - Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Seminar

We study the theory of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity with generalized dilaton potential on Euclidean two-dimensional negatively curved backgrounds. The effect of the generalized dilaton potential is to induce a conical defect on the two-dimensional manifold. We show that this theory can be written as the ordinary quantum mechanics of a charged particle on a hyperbolic disk in the presence of a constant background magnetic field plus a pure gauge Aharonov-Bohm field. This picture allows us to exactly calculate the wavefunctions and propagators of the corresponding gravitational dynamics. With this method we are also able to reproduce the gravitational density of states as well as compute the R\'eyni and entanglement entropies for the Hartle-Hawking state. While we reproduce the classical entropy at high temperature, we also find an extra topological contribution that becomes dominant at low temperatures. We finally show that these quantities are also obtanable by dimensionally reducing $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ black holes of pure 3D gravity.

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