https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12485-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Entanglement island versus massless gravity
School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-Sen University, 519082, Zhuhai, China
Received:
13
September
2023
Accepted:
26
January
2024
Published online:
6
February
2024
Entanglement islands play an essential role in the recent breakthrough in addressing the black hole information paradox. Inspired by double holography, it is conjectured that the entanglement islands can exist only in massive gravity. There are many pieces of evidence but also debates for this conjecture. This paper recovers the massless entanglement island in wedge holography with negative DGP gravity on the brane. However, the spectrum of negative DGP gravity includes a massive ghost, implying the model is unstable. Our work supports the view that there is no entanglement island in a well-defined braneworld model of massless gravity if one divides the radiation and black hole regions by minimizing entanglement entropy. However, such a partition results in a zero radiation region containing no information. Whether there are other physical non-trivial partitions of the radiation region is an open question and deserves further study.
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