5 papers
Euclidean Wormholes and Gravitational States
Alexandre Belin
Euclidean wormholes are known to encode important non-perturbative effects in the physics of quantum black holes. In this paper, we discuss the slicing of Euclidean wormholes along…
Fortuity in ABJM
Alexandre Belin, Palash Singh, Rita Vadala +1
We study -BPS and -BPS cohomologies and the fortuitous mechanism in ABJM theory. We first establish the existence of fortuitous states in the theory, where the th…
A measure on the space of CFTs and pure 3D gravity
Alexandre Belin, Alexander Maloney, Florian Seefeld
We define a normalizable measure on the space of two-dimensional conformal field theories, which we interpret as a maximum ignorance ensemble. We test whether pure quantum gravity…
Searching for strongly coupled AdS matter with multi-trace deformations
Luis Apolo, Alexandre Belin, Suzanne Bintanja
Holographic CFTs admit a dual emergent description in terms of semiclassical general relativity minimally coupled to matter fields. While the gravitational interactions are require…
Symmetric Product Orbifold Universality and the Mirage of an Emergent Spacetime
Alexandre Belin, Suzanne Bintanja, Alejandra Castro +1
We study thermal two-point functions and four-point functions involving two heavy twisted operators and two light probes in symmetric product orbifolds. We identify cases where the…