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Bouncing off a stringy singularity

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Matthew Dodelson
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Cristoforo Iossa
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Robin Karlsson *
DOI:10.1007/jhep07(2026)161delete
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A sharp signature of the black hole singularity in holography is a divergence in the boundary thermal two-point function at a specific point in the complex time plane. This divergence arises from a null geodesic that bounces off the black hole singularity. At finite ’t Hooft coupling, stringy corrections to the bulk dynamics cannot be neglected, and the fate of the bouncing geodesic is an open question. We propose a simple scenario in which the singularity in the two-point function is shifted slightly into the complex plane, thereby smoothing it out into a finite-size bump. We demonstrate this smoothing explicitly in a microscopic example, namely the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model at infinite temperature, where the correlator is under analytic control. Our result suggests a bulk description of planar theories at finite coupling as stringy black holes.

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Journal of High Energy Physics
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Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature
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mathematical institute
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université de genève
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