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Emergent Mixed States for Baby Universes and Black Holes
Jonah Kudler-Flam, Edward Witten
We examine the behavior of sequences of states in the large limit of AdS/CFT duality in cases in which the bulk duals involve baby universes or black holes. Such sequences gene…
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Bras and Kets in Euclidean Path Integrals
Edward Witten
Quantum mechanics requires a hermitian inner product <~,~> -- linear in one variable, antilinear in the other -- while the inner product (~,~) that comes most naturally from Euclid…