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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…
Modular chaos, operator algebras, and the Berry phase
Jan de Boer, Bahman Najian, Jeremy van der Heijden +1
Modular Berry transport associates a geometric phase to a zero mode ambiguity in a family of modular operators. In holographic settings, this phase was shown to encode nontrivial i…
Quantum Extremal Modular Curvature: Modular Transport with Islands
Lars Aalsma, Cynthia Keeler, Claire Zukowski
Modular Berry transport is a useful way to understand how geometric bulk information is encoded in the boundary CFT: The modular curvature is directly related to the bulk Riemann c…
Changing states in holography: From modular Berry curvature to the bulk symplectic form
Bartlomiej Czech, Jan de Boer, Ricardo Espíndola +3
We present a new perspective on bulk reconstruction using Berry phases in the boundary CFT. Our parallel transport of modular Hamiltonians is associated to a trajectory in the spac…
Coupling Fields to 3D Quantum Gravity via Chern-Simons Theory
Alejandra Castro, Ioana Coman, Jackson R. Fliss +1
We propose a mechanism that couples matter fields to three-dimensional quantum gravity, which can be used for theories with a positive or negative cosmological constant. Our propos…
Keeping matter in the loop in dS quantum gravity
Alejandra Castro, Ioana Coman, Jackson R. Fliss +1
We propose a mechanism that couples matter fields to three-dimensional de Sitter quantum gravity. Our construction is based on the Chern-Simons formulation of three-dimensional Euc…
Virasoro Entanglement Berry Phases
Jan de Boer, Ricardo Espíndola, Bahman Najian +3
We study the parallel transport of modular Hamiltonians encoding entanglement properties of a state. In the case of 2d CFT, we consider a change of state through action with a suit…
Complexity for Conformal Field Theories in General Dimensions
Nicolas Chagnet, Shira Chapman, Jan de Boer +1
We study circuit complexity for conformal field theory states in arbitrary dimensions. Our circuits start from a primary state and move along a unitary representation of the Lorent…
Gravitational Wilson Lines in 3D de Sitter
Alejandra Castro, Philippe Sabella-Garnier, Claire Zukowski
We construct local probes in the static patch of Euclidean dS gravity. These probes are Wilson line operators, designed by exploiting the Chern-Simons formulation of 3D gravity…
Kinematic space and the orbit method
Robert F. Penna, Claire Zukowski
Kinematic space has been defined as the space of codimension- spacelike extremal surfaces in anti de Sitter (AdS) spacetime which, by the Ryu-Takayanagi proposal, comput…
Computational complexity of the landscape II - Cosmological considerations
Frederik Denef, Michael R. Douglas, Brian Greene +1
We propose a new approach for multiverse analysis based on computational complexity, which leads to a new family of "computational" measure factors. By defining a cosmology as a sp…
Equivalence of Emergent de Sitter Spaces from Conformal Field Theory
Curtis T. Asplund, Nele Callebaut, Claire Zukowski
Recently, two groups have made distinct proposals for a de Sitter space that is emergent from conformal field theory (CFT). The first proposal is that, for two-dimensional holograp…
Anthropic Origin of the Neutrino Mass from Cooling Failure
Raphael Bousso, Dan Mainemer Katz, Claire Zukowski
The sum of active neutrino masses is well constrained, meV eV, but the origin of this scale is not well understood. Here we investigate the possibility…
Flux Compactifications Grow Lumps
Alex Dahlen, Claire Zukowski
The simplest flux compactifications are highly symmetric---a -form flux is wrapped uniformly around an extra-dimensional -sphere. In this paper, we investigate solutions that…
Kaluza-Klein Towers on General Manifolds
Kurt Hinterbichler, Janna Levin, Claire Zukowski
A higher-dimensional universe with compactified extra dimensions admits a four-dimensional description consisting of an infinite Kaluza-Klein tower of fields. We revisit the proble…
Multi-Vacuum Initial Conditions and the Arrow of Time
Raphael Bousso, Claire Zukowski
Depending on the type and arrangement of metastable vacua in the theory, initial conditions in a de Sitter vacuum with arbitrarily large entropy can be compatible with the observed…
Can we live in the bulk without a brane?
Kurt Hinterbichler, Janna Levin, Claire Zukowski
We suggest a braneless scenario that still hides large-volume extra dimensions. Ordinarily the strength of bulk gauge interactions would be diluted over the large internal volume,…