2 papers
hep-th2026
Wilson Towers as Local Bulk Fields
Vishal Gayari, Chethan Krishnan
Multi-winding Wilson loops (``Wilson spools'') in 2+1-dimensional gravity can reproduce one-loop partition functions of local free fields in the bulk. Bulk free fields have a secon…
hep-th2026
Holography, Brick Wall and a Little Hierarchy Problem
Vishal Gayari, Chethan Krishnan, Pradipta S. Pathak
We propose a heuristic for the brick wall in AdS/CFT: the location where a boundary mode's local bulk energy reaches a (Planckian) UV cut-off. This accomplishes two things: (a) the…