Searching for butterflies in dS JT gravity

TL;DR

This paper studies out-of-time-ordered correlators in de Sitter Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, proposing they are encoded on different gravitational path integral sheets, and demonstrates maximal chaos consistent with shockwave intuition.

Contribution

It introduces a novel interpretation of out-of-time-ordered correlators in dS JT gravity as being encoded on different sheets of the gravitational path integral.

Findings

Established maximal chaos in dS JT gravity

Linked out-of-time-ordered correlators to different gravitational sheets

Confirmed consistency with shockwave intuition

Abstract

We investigate out of time ordered correlators in the bulk of dS JT gravity, using Schwarzian perturbation theory, and propose that these out of time ordered correlators are encoded on the second sheet of the gravitational path integral, different sheets corresponding to different gravitational operator orderings. Implementing this in practice, we establish maximal chaos, in agreement with shockwave intuition.