arXiv:1711.08467 · Journal of High Energy Physics

The soft mode in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and its gravity dual

Alexei Kitaev, Sunok Josephine Suh

Published May 1, 2018• 631 citations

Abstract

A bstract We give an exposition of the SYK model with several new results. A non-local correction to the Schwarzian effective action is found. The same action is obtained by integrating out the bulk degrees of freedom in a certain variant of dilaton gravity. We also discuss general properties of out-of-time-order correlators.

DOI: 10.1007/jhep05(2018)183

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