Black holes from chaos

Abstract

We study the emergence of black hole geometry from chaotic systems at finite temperature. The essential input is the universal operator growth hypothesis, which dictates the asymptotic behavior of the Lanczos coefficients. Under this assumption, we map the chaotic dynamics to a discrete analog of the scattering problem on a black hole background. We give a simple prescription for computing the Green's functions, and explore some of the resulting analytic properties. In particular, assuming that the Lanczos coefficients are sufficiently smooth, we present evidence that the spectral density is a meromorphic function of frequency with no zeroes. Our formalism provides a framework for accurately computing the late time behavior of Green's functions in chaotic systems, and we work out several instructive examples.