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Before the Bang: Wormholes at the Dawn of the Universe

Panos Betzios, Paul Ghiringhelli, Ioannis D. Gialamas +1

This essay discusses recent progress on Euclidean wormholes as candidate contributions to the Universe's initial quantum state. The comparison with the Hartle-Hawking no-boundary p…

hep-th2025★ 41 cited

Quantum complexity in gravity, quantum field theory, and quantum information science

Stefano Baiguera, Vijay Balasubramanian, Pawel Caputa +4

Quantum complexity quantifies the difficulty of preparing a state or implementing a unitary transformation with limited resources. Applications range from quantum computation to co…

hep-th2025★ 17 cited

Wormholes, branes and finite matrices in sine dilaton gravity

Andreas Blommaert, Adam Levine, Thomas G. Mertens +2

We compute the double trumpet in sine dilaton gravity via WdW quantization. The wormhole size is discretized. The wormhole amplitude matches the spectral correlation of a finite-cu…

hep-th2024★ 24 cited

Krylov spread complexity as holographic complexity beyond JT gravity

Michal P. Heller, Jacopo Papalini, Tim Schuhmann

One of the important open problems in quantum black hole physics is a dual interpretation of holographic complexity proposals. To date the only quantitative match is the equality b…

hep-th2024

Magnetic Anti-de Sitter Wormholes as seeds for Higgs Inflation

Panos Betzios, Ioannis D. Gialamas, Olga Papadoulaki

We show how certain types of magnetic asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Euclidean wormholes can catalyze the onset of inflation. These wormholes can be embedded as saddle point solutio…

hep-th2024★ 28 cited

Geometric Interpretation of Timelike Entanglement Entropy

Michal P. Heller, Fabio Ori, Alexandre Serantes

Analytic continuations of holographic entanglement entropy in which the boundary subregion extends along a timelike direction have brought a promise of a novel, time-centric probe…