Replica wormhole and island incompatibility with monogamy of entanglement (2007.10523v2)

Abstract: We argue that the `island conjecture' and the replica wormhole derivation of the Page curve break monogamy of entanglement through allowing black hole interior states to be non-classically correlated while also pairwise entangled with radiation states. The reason is that quantum degrees of freedom (present in any half of a Hawking pair) cannot all be identified with the environment at semi-classical pair production, and can only be fixed relative to a subsystem, as required for the Page curve, by correlations equivalent to entanglement - regardless of what those correlations are attributed to. This implies that the recent gravity (replica wormhole) and holographic (island conjecture) derivations of the Page curve entail new physics not yet properly taken into account.