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3D de Sitter from complex Virasoro TQFT: Observers and knots
Jeevan Chandra, Diego Liska, Boris Post
The Euclidean saddles of 3D Einstein gravity with positive cosmological constant are spherical three-manifolds. When one adds a heavy observer, the backreacted saddles are spherica…
A universal sum over topologies in 3d gravity
Alexandre Belin, Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt +2
We explore the sum over topologies in AdS quantum gravity and its relationship with the statistical interpretation of the boundary theory. We formulate a statistical version of…
Microstate counting from defects in de Sitter
Jan de Boer, Diego Liska, Kamran Salehi Vaziri
We explore the microscopic origin of de Sitter entropy using a Lorentzian path-integral approach. We construct a Hilbert space whose states are associated with configurations of th…
The light we can see: Extracting black holes from weak Jacobi forms
Luis Apolo, Suzanne Bintanja, Alejandra Castro +1
We quantify how constraints on light states affect the asymptotic growth of heavy states in weak Jacobi forms. The constraints we consider are sparseness conditions on the Fourier…
Multiboundary wormholes and OPE statistics
Jan de Boer, Diego Liska, Boris Post
We derive higher moments in the statistical distribution of OPE coefficients in holographic 2D CFTs, and show that such moments correspond to multiboundary Euclidean wormholes in p…
A principle of maximum ignorance for semiclassical gravity
Jan de Boer, Diego Liska, Boris Post +1
The principle of maximum ignorance posits that the coarse-grained description of a system is maximally agnostic about its underlying microscopic structure. We briefly review this p…
OPE statistics from higher-point crossing
Tarek Anous, Alexandre Belin, Jan de Boer +1
We present new asymptotic formulas for the distribution of OPE coefficients in conformal field theories. These formulas involve products of four or more coefficients and include li…
Non-Gaussianities in the Statistical Distribution of Heavy OPE Coefficients and Wormholes
Alexandre Belin, Jan de Boer, Diego Liska
The Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis makes a prediction for the statistical distribution of matrix elements of simple operators in energy eigenstates of chaotic quantum systems…