High-order pole skipping in near-extremal holography
Phys. Rev. D 114, 046027 – Published 25 August, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/426j-s5tv
Abstract
We develop a systematic analytic method for studying high-order pole skipping in near-extremal holographic black holes. In the near-extremal regime, approaching the limit , the near-horizon geometry develops an approximately structure; we show that the mode index labeling pole skipping points is identified with the IR conformal dimension in the emergent correspondence, providing a concrete physical interpretation of the subleading pole skipping tower. The method reorganizes the near-horizon Frobenius expansion according to powers of temperature. This reveals a temperature-graded hierarchical structure that reduces the th-order pole skipping condition to a factorized algebraic equation: each pole skipping momentum depends only on the mode index , not on the order . This -independence produces a high degeneracy as , where pole skipping momenta at all orders collapse onto a discrete set of values determined by near-horizon geometry and the scalar field mass; these values can be expressed in terms of thermodynamic quantities such as entropy density and specific heat. In the limit (with remaining small), the leading pole skipping momenta grow asymptotically as . We compute leading temperature corrections and verify our predictions through numerical analysis of the dyonic Gubser-Rocha model. The results confirm that high-order pole skipping at low temperature is governed by near-horizon physics. This provides analytic access to pole-skipping points well beyond those accessible by standard determinant methods and clarifies the structure of holographic Green’s functions in the low-temperature regime.