2025/08/05 by Neuenfeld, Dominik · 3 citations
#FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2508.03798
We explain how to take a well-defined flat-space limit of brane models of AdS coupled to a non-gravitating bath. In the dual BCFT this amounts to a triple-scaling limit where both the number of boundary degrees of freedom and the boundary coupling are taken to infinity while the BCFT boundary piecewise approaches a lightcone. We show how this procedure acts on the conformal generators as a Wigner-İnönü contraction, reducing the global BCFT symmetry algebra to the global symmetry algebra of flat space. We discuss two natural notions of entanglement entropy of the flat-space dual. These are distinguished by whether modes that have left through \mathcal I^± are included or not and give rise to a vanishing and non-trivial Page curve, respectively. Taking the flat-space limit of topological black holes we show that the Page time remains finite in two-dimensions. In d > 2 the Page time diverges in the flat limit, since AdS topological black holes become flat-space Rindler horizons.