3 papers
hep-th2026
A Tale of Two Hartle-Hawking Wave Functions: Fully Gravitational vs Partially Frozen
Galit Anikeeva, Raphaël Dulac, Zixia Wei +1
We revisit the Hartle-Hawking wave function in AdS spacetime, where natural spatial slices are open and require an additional spacetime boundary. This leads to two constructions: a…
hep-th2024
3d gravity from Virasoro TQFT: Holography, wormholes and knots
Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt, Mengyang Zhang
We further develop the description of three-dimensional quantum gravity with negative cosmological constant in terms of Virasoro TQFT formulated in our previous paper arXiv:2304.13…
hep-th2024
SYK Correlators from 2D Liouville-de Sitter Gravity
Herman Verlinde, Mengyang Zhang
We introduce and study a candidate gravity dual to the double scaled SYK model in the form of an exactly soluble 2D de Sitter gravity model consisting of two spacelike Liouville CF…