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Can entanglement islands exist without messing up gravity?

Naman Kumar

May 30, 2026

Entanglement islands — regions that help resolve the black hole information paradox — have stubbornly resisted appearing in theories with healthy, long-range massless gravitons. By adding a unitary quantum field theory localized at a geometric corner rather than modifying gravity itself, this paper finds a stable island saddle that dominates at late times. The culprit wasn't masslessness all along, just the absence of an extra entropy contribution to balance the geometry.
Published as Massless Islands in Wedge Holography arXiv:2606.00488
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