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Free entropy and quantum minimum description length
Patrick Hayden, Alexander Maloney, Jinzhao Wang +1
In free probability, Voiculescu's free entropy counts matrix microstates that approximate an operator. It is a non-commutative analog of the Shannon entropy, distinct from any quan…
Wormholes and the imaginary distance bound
Juan Maldacena, Alexander Maloney, Brian McPeak
Some of the simplest wormhole solutions involve massless scalar fields that take imaginary values. Massless fields can be interpreted as coupling constants in asymptotically flat o…
Resurgence, Conformal Blocks, and the Sum over Geometries in Quantum Gravity
Nathan Benjamin, Scott Collier, Alexander Maloney +1
In two dimensional conformal field theories the limit of large central charge plays the role of a semi-classical limit. Certain universal observables, such as conformal blocks invo…
A Solvable Model of Neural Scaling Laws
Alexander Maloney, Daniel A. Roberts, James Sully
Large language models with a huge number of parameters, when trained on near internet-sized number of tokens, have been empirically shown to obey neural scaling laws: specifically,…
Liouville Theory and the Weil-Petersson Geometry of Moduli Space
Sarah M. Harrison, Alexander Maloney, Tokiro Numasawa
Liouville theory describes the dynamics of surfaces with constant negative curvature and can be used to study the Weil-Petersson geometry of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces. T…
Semiclassical 3D gravity as an average of large-c CFTs
Jeevan Chandra, Scott Collier, Thomas Hartman +1
A two-dimensional CFT dual to a semiclassical theory of gravity in three dimensions must have a large central charge and a sparse low energy spectrum. This constrains the OPE c…