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Untangling Selberg from the Wilson spool: 1-loop determinants and trace formulae in (A)dS
Samuel Haupfear, Victoria Martin, Andrew Svesko +1
Leading quantum effects in perturbative quantum gravity are captured by functional determinants of kinetic operators. We study such 1-loop determinants in three-dimensional Euclide…
Einstein-Maxwell theory and the Weyl double copy
Damien A. Easson, Tucker Manton, Andrew Svesko
The Weyl double copy relates vacuum solutions in general relativity to Abelian gauge fields in Minkowski spacetime. In a previous work, we showed how the Weyl double copy can be ex…
Cosmic acceleration from string induced Galileons
Damien A. Easson, Tucker Manton, Andrew Svesko
It has been shown a specific Horndeski theory of gravity arises from a consistent Kaluza-Klein reduction of the gravi-dilaton sector of the low-energy effective heterotic string ac…
A JT supergravity as a double-cut matrix model
Clifford V. Johnson, Felipe Rosso, Andrew Svesko
We study a Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) supergravity theory, defined as an Euclidean path integral over orientable supermanifolds with constant negative curvature, that was argued by Sta…
The Stringy Origins of Galileons and their Novel Limit
Damien Easson, Tucker Manton, Maulik Parikh +1
We show generalized Galileons -- a particular subclass of Horndeski gravity -- arise from a consistent Kaluza-Klein reduction of the low-energy effective action of heterotic string…
Emergence of Spacetime: From Entanglement to Einstein
Andrew Svesko
Here I develop the connection between thermodynamics, entanglement, and gravity. I begin by showing that the classical null energy condition (NEC) can arise as a consequence of the…
Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity and Beyond
Damien A. Easson, Tucker Manton, Andrew Svesko
A `novel' pure theory of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in four-spacetime dimensions can be constructed by rescaling the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant, seemingly eluding Lovelock's…
Higher spin partition functions via the quasinormal mode method in de Sitter quantum gravity
Victoria L. Martin, Andrew Svesko
In this note we compute the 1-loop partition function of spin- fields on Euclidean de Sitter space using the quasinormal mode method. Instead of computing the quasino…
Novel Aspects of the Extended First Law of Entanglement
Felipe Rosso, Andrew Svesko
Using AdS/CFT an extended first law of entanglement has been previously derived for the vacuum reduced to a ball in Minkowski. The statement not only includes perturbations of the…
A Microscopic Description of Thermodynamic Volume in Extended Black Hole Thermodynamics
Clifford V. Johnson, Victoria L. Martin, Andrew Svesko
Using the fact that theories of gravity with asymptotically three-dimensional anti-de Sitter geometries have dual descriptions as two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), w…
BTZ one-loop determinants via the Selberg zeta function for general spin
Cynthia Keeler, Victoria L. Martin, Andrew Svesko
We relate the heat kernel and quasinormal mode methods of computing the 1-loop partition function of arbitrary spin fields on a rotating (Euclidean) BTZ background using the Selber…
Normal modes in thermal AdS via the Selberg zeta function
Victoria L. Martin, Andrew Svesko
The heat kernel and quasinormal mode methods of computing 1-loop partition functions of spin fields on hyperbolic quotient spacetimes are related vi…
Connecting quasinormal modes and heat kernels in 1-loop determinants
Cynthia Keeler, Victoria L. Martin, Andrew Svesko
We connect two different approaches for calculating functional determinants on quotients of hyperbolic spacetime: the heat kernel method and the quasinormal mode method. For the ex…
Equilibrium to Einstein: Entanglement, Thermodynamics, and Gravity
Andrew Svesko
Here we develop the connection between thermodynamics, entanglement, and gravity. By attributing thermodynamics to timeslices of a causal diamond, we show that the Clausius relatio…
A Local First Law of Gravity
Maulik Parikh, Sudipta Sarkar, Andrew Svesko
We find a (quasi-)local first law of thermodynamics, , connecting gravitational entropy, , with matter energy and work. For Einstein gravity is the Bekenstein…
Einstein's Equations from the Stretched Future Light Cone
Maulik Parikh, Andrew Svesko
We define the stretched future light cone, a timelike hypersurface composed of the worldlines of radially accelerating observers with constant and uniform proper acceleration. By a…
Logarithmic Corrections to Gravitational Entropy and the Null Energy Condition
Maulik Parikh, Andrew Svesko
Using a relation between the thermodynamics of local horizons and the null energy condition, we consider the effects of quantum corrections to the gravitational entropy. In particu…
Thermodynamic Origin of the Null Energy Condition
Maulik Parikh, Andrew Svesko
We derive the classical null energy condition, understood as a constraint on the Ricci tensor, from the second law of thermodynamics applied locally to Bekenstein-Hawking entropy a…