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Black hole interior operators and dilatation symmetry in planar black branes

Nirmalya Kajuri*

  • School of Physical Sciences, IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 175005, India

  • *Contact author: nirmalya@iitmandi.ac.in
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Phys. Rev. D 114, 066018 – Published 24 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/6hqc-h7qd

Abstract

Planar anti–de Sitter (AdS) black branes have a scaling symmetry that maps a brane solution at one temperature to a solution at another. It is natural to expect that boundary representations of bulk field modes should inherit this symmetry, i.e., their correlators should transform covariantly under boundary dilatations. We derive a covariance condition that any boundary representation of interior modes in a planar AdS black brane should satisfy. We then show that Papadodimas-Raju mirror operators satisfy this condition. Thus the Papadodimas-Raju reconstruction of the bulk interior, although state-dependent, inherits the scaling symmetry of planar AdS black holes.

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Phys. Rev. D 114, 066018– Published 24 September, 2026
  • Received 12 April 2026
  • Accepted 31 August 2026
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