Minimal coupling density preserving SYK chaos in sparse models

In plain words

Removing most random couplings from SYK makes it easier to simulate on quantum hardware. It is unclear how many couplings can be removed before it stops behaving like a black hole.

Precise statement

In sparse Majorana SYK with $N$ fermions and $k$ $N$ four-body terms chosen at random, find the critical $k_c$ (as $N\to\infty$) below which the low-temperature Schwarzian regime and near-maximal Lyapunov exponent are lost, and the $1/k$ corrections above it. Answer: $k_c$, or the scaling of physical quantities with $k$.

What would settle it

An analytic large-N treatment of sparse random hypergraphs plus large-N numerics of spectra and OTOCs at several k.

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