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hep-th2026

Anti-scrambling and euclidean folds from observer correlators in de Sitter space

Daniel Harlow, Ying Zhao

The paper investigates how correlation functions measured by an observer in de Sitter space exhibit an anti‑scrambling behavior, contrasting with typical many‑body systems, and sug…

hep-th2026

Observers, -parameters, and the Hartle-Hawking state

Daniel Harlow

In this paper we extend recent ideas about observers and closed universes to theories where observers can be fluctuated into existence in the Hartle-Hawking state. This introduces…

hep-th2025

Disjoint additivity and local quantum physics

Daniel Harlow, Shu-Heng Shao, Jonathan Sorce +1

Quantum systems of physical interest are often local, but there are at least three competing perspectives on how "locality" should be formalized: an algebraic framework, a path-int…

hep-th2025

Observer complementarity for black holes and holography

Netta Engelhardt, Elliott Gesteau, Daniel Harlow

We present a mathematical formulation of black hole complementarity based on recent rules for including the observer in quantum cosmology. We argue that this provides a self-consis…

hep-th2025

Gauging spacetime inversions in quantum gravity

Daniel Harlow, Tokiro Numasawa

Spacetime inversion symmetries such as parity and time reversal play a central role in physics, but they are usually treated as global symmetries. In quantum gravity there are no g…

hep-th2025

Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe

Daniel Harlow, Mykhaylo Usatyuk, Ying Zhao

Recent arguments based on the quantum extremal surface formula or the gravitational path integral have given fairly compelling evidence that the Hilbert space of quantum gravity in…