Solvable Models of Quantum Black Holes: A Review on Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity

hep-th 2025-04 conditional novelty 8.0 of 10

Near-BPS black holes in N=2 supergravity emit a discrete spectral line when transitioning to BPS states, and their radiation and absorption spectra deviate strongly from semiclassical black-body predictions.

hep-th 2026-07 accept novelty 7.0 of 10

Exact Schwarzian averaging yields a completely monotone metric factor with no confining minimum, so the Wilson-loop potential screens as E(L) ~ -κ_IR/L² rather than confining.

hep-th 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 7.0 of 10

Wormhole solutions with imaginary scalars set an Imaginary Distance Bound on analytic continuation of couplings, enforced by stringy effects that coincide with WGC and KSW in special cases.

hep-th 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 7.0 of 10

Increasing black hole scrambling time in JT and RST evaporating geometries suppresses and eliminates late-time entanglement revivals in 2d CFT mutual information for disjoint intervals, interpolating between quasipart...

hep-th 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 7.0 of 10

The one-loop partition function of the Galilean-de Sitter boundary theory is Z(β) = (2/πβ²) exp(4π²c₀/β), whose β⁻² prefactor matches the four generators of the EdS-G algebra; the matching bulk is a Newton-Cartan geom...

hep-th 2025-12 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

Schwarzian quantum fluctuations raise the shear viscosity of near-extremal Reissner-Nordström-AdS4 black holes above s/4π by a positive O(1/(CT)^2) correction and are argued to lift the classical T=0 gapless shear mode.

hep-th 2025-09 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

Backreaction of near-AdS2 geometry gives a temperature correction to scalar correlators that for massive fields needs metric backreaction, matches BTZ, and corrects the standard prescription.

hep-th 2025-05 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

The authors derive the timelike super Liouville structure constants from crossing symmetry and construct a tentative Type 0A/0B super Virasoro minimal string whose sphere three-point functions vanish only after sign c...

hep-th 2025-05 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

The upper edge of the DSSYK spectrum, in a triple scaling limit, exactly reproduces the matrix model of two-dimensional de Sitter JT gravity.

hep-th 2024-12 accept novelty 7.0 of 10

A new accidental symmetry of the NHEK near-horizon geometry maps extreme to near-extreme Kerr perturbations and embeds with SL(2,R) into a Virasoro algebra.

hep-th 2024-12 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

The soft modes of double-scaled SYK are reparametrizations of twisted time coordinates; their effective action is the nonlinear Schwarzian, and deformations yield multi-field Liouville theories with computable low-ene...

gr-qc 2024-11 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

In Choptuik critical collapse, the null energy condition saturation lines meet at the center with a universal angle α=2 arccot(D−1), numerically α≈0.64 in four dimensions.

hep-th 2024-11 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

Finite-mass observers in dS2 have non-commuting type I algebras, and their OTOC shows a Lyapunov exponent 4π/β_dS, twice the de Sitter bound.

hep-th 2026-07 conditional novelty 6.5 of 10

Near-extremal BTZ and warped BTZ in TMG receive log-T corrections from Schwarzian and rotational zero modes whose full-geometry eigenvalues match the throat after non-normalizable eigenfunction corrections and BC spec...

hep-th 2026-07 conditional novelty 6.5 of 10

Gravitational dressing in JT gravity lets an infalling Unruh-DeWitt detector detect the horizon location and temperature locally, violating the equivalence principle without a firewall.

hep-th 2026-08 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Krylov spread complexity of the BTZ thermofield-double state departs from pure quadratic growth at intermediate times and appears to return to quadratic pre-saturation growth, with a bulk dual constructed from an infi...

hep-th 2026-08 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

The wormhole-length onset L0 in DSSYK is derived in closed form through three loops, with new two- and three-loop coefficients from a new exact recursion.

hep-th 2026-08 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Ultracold Reissner-Nordström de Sitter black hole fluctuations are proposed to be described by a gauged near-flat dilaton gravity model with a Gaussian spectral density, yielding a finite partition function and dynami...

hep-th 2026-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Isospin-imbalanced strongly coupled dense matter is shown, via holography, to obey non-Abelian hydrodynamic predictions for current correlators up to the chemical-potential scale, beyond the standard ω,k ≪ T regime.

hep-th 2026-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

At large rank N, the fixed-point formula for the quiver superconformal index equals the Ω_uneq contribution to the microscopic scaling BPS index of Beaujard–Mondal–Pioline, a piece previously invisible on the Coulomb branch.

hep-th 2026-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

In a 2D dilaton-gravity model, stronger gravity shifts kink-antikink bounce windows to higher speeds and narrows them, leaves a lasting contraction of the conformal scale, and produces no curvature singularity in the ...

hep-th 2026-02 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

In JT gravity, the left confining potential required by spectral discreteness makes the wormhole length turn around and plateau, allowing boundary time to run past the would-be singularity and eliminating future horizons.

hep-th 2025-12 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Explicit JT-gravity solutions give closed-form descriptions of the late-time approach to dynamical extreme Reissner-Nordström black holes with persistent Aretakis instability.

hep-th 2025-11 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

In finite-size N=2 SYK, breaking supersymmetry with an irrelevant deformation pushes late-time Krylov complexity to roughly half the maximal Krylov-space bound, while a mass deformation leaves saturation complexity a ...

hep-th 2025-10 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Operator Krylov complexity in triple-scaled DSSYK matches JT-gravity geodesic lengths with shockwaves and exhibits the switchback effect when the Lanczos algorithm is perturbed by two-sided operator insertions.

hep-th 2025-10 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

From rQFC, a new CFT bound follows that forbids the QNEC from saturating faster than O(Σ^{d−2}) in near-vacuum states, while rQFC is proven in JT gravity and explicit QFC counterexamples are constructed.

hep-th 2025-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

For a two-dimensional corner symmetry algebra, coherent corner states give an entanglement entropy that scales with the area when mapped to near-extremal Reissner-Nordström black holes.

hep-th 2025-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

The probe-regime two-point function of sinh dilaton gravity matches the q-deformed Ward identity correlator, indicating an emergent quantum hyperbolic disk with SLq(2) isometry near the holographic boundary.

hep-th 2025-06 reject novelty 6.0 of 10

The paper proposes a weighted-sum revision of the quantum extremal surface formula, but the weight is assumed rather than derived.

hep-th 2025-05 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Near-extremal Kerr-dS4 and Kerr-AdS4 black holes admit a sector of metric perturbations whose linearized dynamics is the JT equation, with a Schwarzian effective action for the AdS case.

hep-th 2024-12 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

In the semiclassical limit of double-scaled SYK, Krylov complexity of an operator insertion equals total chord number, i.e., bulk wormhole length.

hep-th 2024-11 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

The one-loop gravitational path integral of sine-dilaton gravity reproduces the one-loop corrections of double-scaled SYK for the free energy (up to an ordering ambiguity) and exactly for the matter two-point function.

quant-ph 2024-11 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

A Metropolis-modified k-local SYK Hamiltonian keeps its chaotic early-time dynamics but changes its level statistics away from random-matrix universality at finite N.

hep-th 2025-07 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

Deformed CFTs on a strip with a stretched-horizon conformal boundary are proposed as UV completions of pure and matter-coupled JT gravity, reproducing its entropy and a Page-curve-like saturation.

hep-th 2024-12 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

A twist factor cutoff from eigenvalue branes reproduces the gray hole firewall probabilities in JT gravity, with matter loop corrections subleading at late times.

hep-th 2024-11 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

Thermal pseudo-entropy is the analytic continuation S(β+it) of thermal entropy, equals the pseudo-entropy of a Thermofield Double transition matrix, and its averaged real part tracks the spectral form factor.

hep-th 2025-06 conditional novelty 4.0 of 10

Two-point correlators of modular Hamiltonians obey entropy-like properties and equal the stress-tensor conformal block for spherical regions in CFT, including imaginary-time separations.

gr-qc 2024-11 reject novelty 3.0 of 10

The authors derive a black hole metric with a cosmological-constant-dependent effective mass and use EHT and VLBI data to put extremely weak bounds on a quantum parameter beta.

gr-qc 2024-11 accept novelty 3.0 of 10

A detailed worked example showing that the solution phase space method reproduces the known mass, angular momentum, entropy, first law, and Smarr relation for the BTZ black hole and three-dimensional Kerr-dS spacetime.