Abstract
In understanding the quantum physics of a black hole, nonperturbative aspects of gravity play important roles. In particular, huge gauge redundancies of a gravitational theory at the nonperturbative level, which are much larger than the standard diffeomorphism and relate even spaces with different topologies, allow us to take different descriptions of a system. While the physical conclusions are the same in any description, the same physics may manifest itself in vastly different forms in descriptions based on different gauge choices. In this paper, we explore the relation between two such descriptions, which we refer to as the global gauge and unitary gauge constructions. The former is based on the global spacetime of general relativity, in which understanding unitarity requires the inclusion of subtle nonperturbative effects of gravity. The latter is based on a distant view of the black hole, in which unitarity is manifest but the existence of interior spacetime is obscured. These two descriptions are complementary. In this paper, we initiate the study of learning aspects of one construction through the analysis of the other. We find that the existence of near empty interior spacetime manifest in the global gauge construction is related to the maximally chaotic, fast scrambling, and universal dynamics of the horizon in the unitary gauge construction. We use the complementarity of the gauge choices to understand the ensemble nature of the gravitational path integral in global spacetime in terms of coarse graining and thermality in a single unitary theory that does not involve any ensemble nature at the fundamental level. We also discuss how the interior degrees of freedom are related with those in the exterior in the two constructions. This relation emerges most naturally as entanglement wedge reconstruction and the effective theory of the interior in the respective constructions.
Highlights
AND GRAND PICTUREA black hole is a special object
We find that the existence of near empty interior spacetime manifest in the global gauge construction is related to the maximally chaotic, fast scrambling, and universal dynamics of the horizon in the unitary gauge construction
When viewed from a distance, the large redshift caused by a strong gravitational field makes the density of states exponentially large even at the quantum level [1,2], while at the same time a classically diverging redshift factor makes the intrinsic scale of dynamics reach the string scale near the horizon, causing the breakdown of the classical spacetime description [3]
Summary
[9,10,11] allows us to erect an effective theory of the interior on each microstate, which can describe the fate of an object falling into the black hole This construction does not work for a regular material surface because of the lack of the typicality and universality, singling out the stretched horizon. An important point is that the construction of the effective theory is restricted to the modes in the near black hole region, called the zone, whose characteristic frequencies ω are sufficiently, e.g., of Oð10Þ, larger than the Hawking temperature TH This structure makes it possible, unlike the scenarios discussed in Refs. We elucidate this relation in detail and discuss properties of the entanglement wedge reconstruction that are contrasted with those of the effective interior theory, which uses the black hole soft modes in addition to radiation degrees of freedom
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