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hep-th2021★ 14 cited
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…
hep-th2021★ 43 cited
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…