2 papers
hep-th2026
Holography with an Inner Boundary: A Smooth Horizon as a Sum over Horizonless States
Chethan Krishnan, Pradipta S. Pathak
The (holomorphic) partition function of the Euclidean BTZ black hole with boundary modulus , is the -image of the Virasoro vacuum character, . This object…
hep-th2024
Holomorphic Factorization at the Quantum Horizon
Chethan Krishnan, Pradipta S. Pathak
We identify a horizon-skimming limit under which wave equations around large classes of black holes allow a determination of their low-lying (quasi-)degenerate normal modes. Buildi…