10 papers
Superconformal indices and black hole saddles
Maciej Kolanowski, Donald Marolf, Zi-Yue Wang +1
The AdS/CFT correspondence implies that the superconformal index in SU(N) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory can be computed using the dual bulk theor…
Dirichlet walls and the end of time
Hanako Helton, Gary T. Horowitz, Donald Marolf
The paper investigates how imposing Dirichlet boundary conditions on a finite surface in Einstein-Hilbert gravity can cause evolutions to end in finite time due to singularities re…
How to tame your (black hole) saddles: Lessons from the Lorentzian Gravitational Path Integral
Maciej Kolanowski, Donald Marolf
We resolve a puzzle associated with the spherically-symmetric sector of the AdS Einstein-Maxwell partition function with inverse temperature . Since charge is quantized, th…
De Sitter quantum gravity and the emergence of local algebras
Molly Kaplan, Donald Marolf, Xuyang Yu +1
Quantum theories of gravity are generally expected to have some degree of non-locality, with familiar local physics emerging only in a particular limit. Perturbative quantum gravit…
Lorentzian Path Integrals and Jackiw-Teitelboim wormholes with imaginary scalars
Jesse Held, Molly Kaplan, Donald Marolf +1
The Lorentzian path integral was recently used to argue that standard Euclidean axion wormholes do not dominate computations of connected AdS/CFT partition functions. We now apply…
Axion Wormholes and the AdS/CFT Factorization Problem
Jesse Held, Molly Kaplan, Donald Marolf +1
This work investigates the relevance of Euclidean and complex axion wormholes to the AdS/CFT factorization problem. We use a framework that defines bulk gravitational path integral…