Page transition for the complexity of an evaporating black hole

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21734v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:34:12 GMT
• Title: Page transition for the complexity of an evaporating black hole
• Abstract summary: We show a transition from spectrum-dominated to basis-dominated subsystem complexity in AdS black holes.<n>We then show the same transition appears in the holographic complexity of the radiation subsystem through the emergence of an island.<n>We argue that the island volume contribution resolves an apparent complexity paradox analogous to the information paradox.
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• Abstract: Recent results demonstrate that there exists a sharp, Page-like transition for the complexity of subsystems of Haar-random states as their fractional subsystem size surpasses one half. They further demonstrate that this transition also occurs for the holographic complexity of boundary subregions of eternal AdS black holes, assuming the Complexity$=$Volume (CV) proposal for subregions. We interpret this transition as a crossover from spectrum-dominated to basis-dominated subsystem complexity, reflecting the breakdown of approximate thermality beyond half-system size. We then apply this reasoning to an evaporating AdS black hole coupled to a bath, modeled by a quantum circuit undergoing random evolution on an interior subsystem of diminishing size. Using the basis-spectrum decomposition of subsystem complexity, we argue for a similar Page-like transition in the radiation complexity. We then show, using CV for subregions, that the same transition appears in the holographic complexity of the radiation subsystem through the emergence of an island, whose volume gives the dominant contribution. We argue that the island volume contribution resolves an apparent complexity paradox analogous to the information paradox.

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