Bulk Spacetime Encoding via Boundary Ambiguities

Abstract: We propose a method to reconstruct the exterior of a static, planar-symmetric black hole from an infinite set of discrete momentum-space locations, known as pole-skipping points, where the boundary Green's function becomes ambiguous. The reconstruction is fully analytical and involves solving only linear equations. It further enables a reinterpretation of any pure gravitational field equation in pole-skipping data. Moreover, our method reveals that the pole-skipping points are redundant: only a subset is independent, while the rest are fixed by an equal number of homogeneous polynomial constraints. These identities are universal, independent of the details of the bulk geometry, including its dimensionality, asymptotic behavior, or the existence of a holographic duality.