Krylov Spread Complexity as Holographic Complexity beyond Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity
One of the important open problems in quantum black hole physics is a dual interpretation of holographic complexity proposals. To date the only quantitative match is the equality between the Krylov spread complexity in the triple-scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model and the complexity = volume proposal in classical Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. Our Letter utilizes the recent connection between the double-scaled SYK model and sine dilaton gravity to show that the quantitative relation between Krylov spread complexity and complexity = volume extends to finite temperatures and to full quantum regime on the gravity side at disk level. Furthermore, we isolate the first quantum correction to the complexity = volume proposal and propose to view it as a complexity of quantum fields in the bulk. The key lesson from our Letter is that gravity demands to assign complexity also to Euclidean state preparation.
Authors
- Michał P. Heller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9692-9495)
- Jacopo Papalini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4849-6565)
- Tim Schuhmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0741-6126)
Institutions
- Ghent University Hospital (BE)
- Ghent University (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-10-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/spcr-jgm6
- Citations
- 12
- Primary Topic
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 22.44