Gravitational Instantons, G-Indextheorem and Non-Local Boundary Terms

Author(s):  
H. Römer
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanato Goto ◽  
Thomas Hartman ◽  
Amirhossein Tajdini

Abstract Quantum extremal islands reproduce the unitary Page curve of an evaporating black hole. This has been derived by including replica wormholes in the gravitational path integral, but for the transient, evaporating black holes most relevant to Hawking’s paradox, these wormholes have not been analyzed in any detail. In this paper we study replica wormholes for black holes formed by gravitational collapse in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, and confirm that they lead to the island rule for the entropy. The main technical challenge is that replica wormholes rely on a Euclidean path integral, while the quantum extremal islands of an evaporating black hole exist only in Lorentzian signature. Furthermore, the Euclidean equations for the Schwarzian mode are non-local, so it is unclear how to connect to the local, Lorentzian dynamics of an evaporating black hole. We address these issues with Schwinger-Keldysh techniques and show how the non-local equations reduce to the local ‘boundary particle’ description in special cases.


2019 ◽  
Vol 181 ◽  
pp. 87-100
Author(s):  
Noureddine Igbida ◽  
Soma Safimba

1996 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. PAPADAKIS ◽  
B. PELLONI

The impedance boundary condition for the parabolic approximation is derived in the case of a sea bottom profile sloping at a constant angle, as a non-local boundary condition imposed exactly at the interface. This condition is integrated into the IFD code for the numerical computation of the pressure field and implemented to test its accuracy in some benchmark cases, for which the backscattered field is negligible. It is shown that by avoiding the sloping interface, the results obtained are closer to the benchmark results given by normal mode codes solving the full Helmholtz equation, such as the 2-way COUPLE code, than those of the standard IFD or other 1-way codes, at least for problems that do not have significant backscattering effects.


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