Krylov complexity and the growth of the black hole interior in 3D gravity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19373v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:41:13 GMT
• Title: Krylov complexity and the growth of the black hole interior in 3D gravity
• Abstract summary: We show that operator Krylov complexity reproduces the late-time linear growth of the black hole interior.<n>Our results point to a distinguished role for operator Krylov complexity in encoding black hole interior growth beyond two-dimensional gravity.
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• Abstract: We investigate the growth of the black hole interior in three-dimensional gravity from the boundary theory. For the two-sided BTZ black hole, we propose a boundary reconstruction of the time dependence of a codimension-one surface in terms of correlation functions of smeared operators in the thermofield double state, reproducing the characteristic late-time linear growth predicted by the complexity-volume proposal. Using the Chern--Simons formulation of three-dimensional gravity, these nonlocal correlators are represented by bulk Wilson lines with smeared endpoints, extending the familiar connection between Wilson lines and codimension-two observables underlying holographic entanglement entropy to codimension-one observables. We then ask whether the same geometric growth is captured by Krylov complexity. For the smeared operators, we extract the Lanczos data from their correlation functions and find that operator Krylov complexity reproduces the late-time linear growth of the black hole interior, extending previous connections between operator growth and bulk geometry to AdS$_3$. By contrast, the Krylov spread complexity of the thermofield double state, obtained from the semiclassical gravitational partition function, does not exhibit the linear growth of the bulk volume within the regime accessible to our analysis. Our results therefore point to a distinguished role for operator Krylov complexity in encoding black hole interior growth beyond two-dimensional gravity, while highlighting a qualitative distinction between operator and state notions of Krylov complexity.

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