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A convergent genus expansion for the plateau
Phil Saad, Douglas Stanford, Zhenbin Yang +1
We conjecture a formula for the spectral form factor of a double-scaled matrix integral in the limit of large time, large density of states, and fixed temperature. The formula has…
Comments on wormholes and factorization
Phil Saad, Stephen Shenker, Shunyu Yao
In AdS/CFT partition functions of decoupled copies of the CFT factorize. In bulk computations of such quantities contributions from spacetime wormholes which link separate asymptot…
Wormholes without averaging
Phil Saad, Stephen H. Shenker, Douglas Stanford +1
After averaging over fermion couplings, SYK has a collective field description that sometimes has "wormhole" solutions. We study the fate of these wormholes when the couplings are…
Late Time Correlation Functions, Baby Universes, and ETH in JT Gravity
Phil Saad
Quantum black holes are described by a large number of macroscopically indistinguishable microstates. Correlation functions of fields outside the horizon at long time separation pr…
JT gravity as a matrix integral
Phil Saad, Stephen H. Shenker, Douglas Stanford
We present exact results for partition functions of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity on two-dimensional surfaces of arbitrary genus with an arbitrary number of boundaries. The bounda…
A semiclassical ramp in SYK and in gravity
Phil Saad, Stephen H. Shenker, Douglas Stanford
In finite entropy systems, real-time partition functions do not decay to zero at late time. Instead, assuming random matrix universality, suitable averages exhibit a growing "ramp"…
Black Holes and Random Matrices
Jordan S. Cotler, Guy Gur-Ari, Masanori Hanada +6
We argue that the late time behavior of horizon fluctuations in large anti-de Sitter (AdS) black holes is governed by the random matrix dynamics characteristic of quantum chaotic s…
Remarks on brane and antibrane dynamics
Ben Michel, Eric Mintun, Joseph Polchinski +2
We develop the point of view that brane actions should be understood in the context of effective field theory, and that this is the correct way to treat classical as well as loop d…