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most citedLarge N algebras and generalized entropy

151 citations · 623 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

hep-th2023★ 23 cited

One-shot holography

Chris Akers, Adam Levine, Geoff Penington +1

Following the work of [2008.03319], we define a generally covariant max-entanglement wedge of a boundary region , which we conjecture to be the bulk region reconstructible from…

hep-th2022★ 151 cited

Large N algebras and generalized entropy

Venkatesa Chandrasekaran, Geoff Penington, Edward Witten

We construct a Type II von Neumann algebra that describes the large physics of single-trace operators in AdS/CFT in the microcanonical ensemble, where there is no need…

hep-th2021★ 45 cited

Finding Pythons in Unexpected Places

Netta Engelhardt, Geoff Penington, Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam

We argue that novel (highly nonclassical) quantum extremal surfaces play a crucial role in reconstructing the black hole interior even for isolated, single-sided, non-evaporating b…

hep-th2021★ 67 cited

A World without Pythons would be so Simple

Netta Engelhardt, Geoff Penington, Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam

We show that bulk operators lying between the outermost extremal surface and the asymptotic boundary admit a simple boundary reconstruction in the classical limit. This is the conv…

hep-th2019★ 31 cited

Holographic scattering requires a connected entanglement wedge

Alex May, Geoff Penington, Jonathan Sorce

In AdS/CFT, there can exist local 2-to-2 bulk scattering processes even when local scattering is not possible on the boundary; these have previously been studied in connection with…

hep-th2019★ 41 cited

Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox

Geoffrey Penington

When absorbing boundary conditions are used to evaporate a black hole in AdS/CFT, we show that there is a phase transition in the location of the quantum Ryu-Takayanagi surface, at…

hep-th2019★ 27 cited

Holographic Tensor Networks in Full AdS/CFT

Ning Bao, Geoffrey Penington, Jonathan Sorce +1

We present a general procedure for constructing tensor networks for geometric states in the Anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence. Given a state in a large…

hep-th2019★ 54 cited

Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction using the Petz Map

Chi-Fang Chen, Geoffrey Penington, Grant Salton

At the heart of recent progress in AdS/CFT is the question of subregion duality, or entanglement wedge reconstruction: which part(s) of the boundary CFT are dual to a given subregi…

hep-th2018★ 96 cited

Beyond Toy Models: Distilling Tensor Networks in Full AdS/CFT

Ning Bao, Geoffrey Penington, Jonathan Sorce +1

We present a general procedure for constructing tensor networks that accurately reproduce holographic states in conformal field theories (CFTs). Given a state in a large- CFT wi…

hep-th2018★ 88 cited

Learning the Alpha-bits of Black Holes

Patrick Hayden, Geoffrey Penington

When the bulk geometry in AdS/CFT contains a black hole, the boundary reconstruction of a given bulk operator will often necessarily depend on the choice of black hole microstate,…