28.10.2026 (Wednesday)

Dominik Neuenfeld (University of Würzburg)
28 Oct at 14:00 - 15:00
KCL - KIN LG109

I 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. 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.
I will discuss two natural notions of entanglement entropy of the flat-space dual. These are distinguished by whether modes that have left through future null infinity 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, 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.

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