Understanding the fate of semi-classical black hole solutions at very late times is one of the most important open questions in quantum gravity. In this talk, we provide a path integral definition of the volume of the black hole interior and study it at arbitrarily late times for black holes in various models of two-dimensional gravity. Because of a novel universal cancellation between the contributions of the semi-classical black hole spectrum and some of its non-perturbative corrections, we find that, after a linear growth at early times, the length of the interior saturates at a time, and towards a value, that is exponentially large in the entropy of the black hole. This provides a non-perturbative confirmation of the complexity equals volume proposal since complexity is also expected to plateau at the same value and at the same time.
The volume of the black hole interior at late times
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Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Mark Mezei (Stony Brook)
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