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We give an exposition of the SYK model with several new results. A non-local correction to the Schwarzian effective action is found. The same action is obtained by integrating out the bulk degrees of freedom in a certain variant of dilaton gravity. We also discuss general properties of out-of-time-order correlators.
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Kitaev, A., Suh, S.J. The soft mode in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and its gravity dual. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 183 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2018)183
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