3 papers
hep-th2026
Wormholes and the imaginary distance bound
Juan Maldacena, Alexander Maloney, Brian McPeak
Some of the simplest wormhole solutions involve massless scalar fields that take imaginary values. Massless fields can be interpreted as coupling constants in asymptotically flat o…
hep-th2025
Two dimensional Nearly de Sitter gravity
Juan Maldacena, Gustavo J. Turiaci, Zhenbin Yang
We study some aspects of the de Sitter version of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. Though we do not have propagating gravitons, we have a boundary mode when we compute observables with a…
hep-th2024
A supersymmetric SYK model with a curious low energy behavior
Anna Biggs, Juan Maldacena, Vladimir Narovlansky
We consider = 2, 4 supersymmetric SYK models that have a peculiar low energy behavior, with the entropy going like , where $a \neq…