Topological shadows and complexity of islands in multiboundary wormholes

Recently, remarkable progress in recovering the Page curve of an evaporating black hole (BH) in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity has been achieved through use of Quantum Extremal surfaces (QES). Multi-boundary Wormhole (MbW) models have been crucial in parallel model building in three dimensions. Motivated by this we here use the latter models to compute the subregion complexity of the Hawking quanta of the evaporating BH in AdS(3) and obtain the Page curve associated with this information theoretic measure. We use three- and n-boundary wormhole constructions to elucidate our computations of volumes below the Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi (HRT) surfaces at different times. Time is represented by the growing length of the throat horizons corresponding to smaller exits of the multi-boundary wormhole and the evaporating bigger exit shrinks with evolving time. We track the change in choice of HRT surfaces with time and plot the volume with time. The smooth transition of Page curve is realized by a discontinuous jump at Page time in volume subregion complexity plots and the usual Page transition is realized as a phase transition due to the inclusion of the island in this context. We discuss mathematical intricacies and physical insights regarding the inclusion of the extra volume at Page time. The analysis is backed by calculations and lessons from kinematic space and tensor networks.

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In this study, the subregion complexity of an evaporating black hole in AdS(3) was computed using multi-boundary wormhole models, resulting in the determination of the associated Page curve. The transition of the Page curve was smoothly realized by tracking the change in choice of HRT surfaces with time and plotting the volume over time. The inclusion of the island at Page time led to a discontinuous jump at the Page time, resulting in a phase transition in the volume subregion complexity plots.