2 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
Low-dimensional de Sitter quantum gravity
Jordan Cotler, Kristan Jensen, Alexander Maloney
We study aspects of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) quantum gravity in two-dimensional nearly de Sitter (dS) spacetime, as well as pure de Sitter quantum gravity in three dimensions. These…