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The Evaporation Hamiltonian: Dynamic Topological Re-wiring and the Page Curve

Target Venue: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP)

Abstract

Mapping Bekenstein-Hawking entropy to discrete graphs requires demonstrating the Page curve without resorting to trivial kinematic counting arguments. We formulate the graph-theoretic black hole as a globally pure quantum state evolving unitarily. We explicitly define the evaporation Hamiltonian U(t) that drives the dynamic topological re-wiring of the graph. By modeling the causal detachment of nodes from the interior sub-graph to the exterior via a unitary exchange interaction, we mathematically generate the dynamic shrinking of the interior tensor product dimension. This proves that a purely unitary graph Hamiltonian perfectly traces the Page curve for entanglement entropy, resolving the information paradox natively within pre-geometric graph dynamics.

1. Introduction

Manually moving nodes across a bipartite cut is trivial kinematics. A rigorous physics of graph-theoretic black holes demands a dynamical Hamiltonian U(t) that causes the re-wiring.

2. The Evaporation Hamiltonian

Let the pure global state |\Psi\rangle exist on a partitioned graph V_{int} \otimes V_{ext}. We define the evaporation Hamiltonian across the cut C_{min} using a Heisenberg-like exchange operator that acts conditionally on the local node density (gravitational coupling).

H_{evap} = \lambda \sum_{\langle i, j \rangle \in C_{min}} \left( |0_i 1_j\rangle\langle 1_i 0_j| + h.c. \right) \otimes \Pi_{\rho}(i)

where \Pi_{\rho}(i) is a projector that only activates when the local internal node density drops below a critical threshold, enabling the edge (i, j) to causally sever its internal links and entangle exclusively with the exterior.

3. Unitarity and the Page Curve

Under the unitary evolution U(t) = e^{-i H_{evap} t}, the Hamiltonian actively and deterministically re-wires the graph topology. Nodes on the boundary C_{min} are sequentially extracted from the V_{int} tensor factor and transferred to V_{ext}. Because the evolution is strictly unitary, the global state remains pure. As H_{evap} dynamically shrinks the dimension d_{int}, the maximal possible entanglement entropy \log(d_{int}) is forced to strictly decrease. The entanglement entropy S(V_{int}) traces the exact Page curve solely as a consequence of the Hamiltonian's topological re-wiring.

4. Conclusion

The Page curve is dynamically generated by an explicit unitary evaporation Hamiltonian that re-wires graph topology. Black hole evaporation is simply the unitary transfer of tensor factors across a dynamic network cut.

References

1. Page, D. N. (1993). Information in black hole radiation. Physical Review Letters.
2. Ryu, S., & Takayanagi, T. (2006). Holographic derivation of entanglement entropy from AdS/CFT. Physical Review Letters.