On the reconstruction map in JT gravity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18975v1
• Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2025 18:00:01 GMT
• Title: On the reconstruction map in JT gravity
• Authors: Chris Akers, Andrew Lucas, Amit Vikram,
• Abstract summary: We reconstruct semiclassical bulk operators precisely enough that non-perturbative quantum effects can be computed.<n>Our map is found by canonically quantizing "action-angle" variables for JT gravity.<n>We obtain analytical predictions for the dynamics of the wormhole length.
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• Abstract: An open question in AdS/CFT is how to reconstruct semiclassical bulk operators precisely enough that non-perturbative quantum effects can be computed. We propose a set of physically-motivated requirements for such a reconstruction map, and explicitly construct a map satisfying these requirements in Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity. Our map is found by canonically quantizing "action-angle" variables for JT gravity, which are chosen to ensure that the spectrum of the fundamental quantum theory matches known results from the gravitational path integral. We then study unitary quantum dynamics in this theory, and obtain analytical predictions for the dynamics of the wormhole length, including its quantum fluctuations, leveraging techniques from quantum ergodicity theory. Level repulsion in the non-perturbative JT spectrum implies that the average wormhole length is non-monotonic in time, that fluctuations in wormhole length are non-perturbatively suppressed until nearly the Heisenberg time, and that the late-time-evolved Hartle-Hawking state has a heavy-tailed distribution of lengths. We discuss the implications of our results for the "complexity = volume" conjecture.

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