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From Conformal Blocks to Path Integrals in the Vaidya Geometry
Tarek Anous, Thomas Hartman, Antonin Rovai +1
Correlators in conformal field theory are naturally organized as a sum over conformal blocks. In holographic theories, this sum must reorganize into a path integral over bulk field…
Black Hole Collapse in the 1/c Expansion
Tarek Anous, Thomas Hartman, Antonin Rovai +1
We present a first-principles CFT calculation corresponding to the spherical collapse of a shell of matter in three dimensional quantum gravity. In field theory terms, we describe…
Gravity and On-Shell Probe Actions
Frank Ferrari, Antonin Rovai
In any gravitational theory and in a wide class of background space-times, we argue that there exists a simple, yet profound, relation between the on-shell Euclidean gravitational…
Holography, Probe Branes and Isoperimetric Inequalities
Frank Ferrari, Antonin Rovai
In many instances of holographic correspondences between a d dimensional boundary theory and a d+1 dimensional bulk, a direct argument in the boundary theory implies that there mus…
Emergent D5-brane Background from D-strings
Frank Ferrari, Antonin Rovai
We solve the worldsheet theory describing the near-horizon dynamics of a D-string in the presence of a very large number N of D5-branes. The model is pre-geometric in the sense tha…
Examples of Emergent Type IIB Backgrounds from Matrices
Frank Ferrari, Micha Moskovic, Antonin Rovai
We study models of emergent space associated with the Coulomb branch, non-commutative and beta deformations of the N=4 super Yang-Mills theory, extending a previous work on the und…