2 papers
hep-th2025
The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes
Stefano Antonini, Pratik Rath, Martin Sasieta +2
Big bang/big crunch closed universes can be realized in AdS/CFT, even though they lack asymptotically AdS boundaries. With enough bulk entanglement, the bulk Hilbert space of a clo…
hep-th2025
A Black Hole Airy Tail
Stefano Antonini, Luca V. Iliesiu, Pratik Rath +1
In Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity, which is dual to a random matrix ensemble, the annealed entropy differs from the quenched entropy at low temperatures and goes negative. However,…