Theory Group Seminar, 22 April 2008
Norihiro Iizuka, KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara
A matrix model for black hole thermalization
abstract
Black hole information paradox is a great thought experiment to deepen our understanding of quantum gravity, and recent gauge/gravity duality enables us to understand this problem from the dual gauge theory. In this talk, we present an N x N matrix model that is intended as a toy model of the gauge dual of an AdS black hole. By studying the Schwinger-Dyson equation of this model, we see how information loss is reflected as the decay of correlators at late time in our matrix model, which happens only at infinite N but never happens at finite N. We also discuss some implications for the information problem.