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Fiducial observers and the thermal atmosphere in the black hole quantum throat
Thomas G. Mertens, Thomas Tappeiner, Bruno de S. L. Torres
We propose a construction of fiducial observers in the throat region of near-extremal black holes within the framework of JT quantum gravity, leading to a notion of local observers…
Minimal Factorization of Chern-Simons Theory -- Gravitational Anyonic Edge Modes
Thomas G. Mertens, Qi-Feng Wu
One approach to analyzing entanglement in a gauge theory is embedding it into a factorized theory with edge modes on the entangling boundary. For topological quantum field theories…
Quantum group origins of edge states in double-scaled SYK
Andreas Belaey, Thomas G. Mertens, Thomas Tappeiner
Double-scaled SYK (DSSYK) is known to have an underlying quantum group theoretical description. We precisely pinpoint the quantum group structure, improving upon earlier work in th…