2 papers
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…
hep-th2026
Holography with an Inner Boundary: A Smooth Horizon as a Sum over Horizonless States
Chethan Krishnan, Pradipta S. Pathak
The (holomorphic) partition function of the Euclidean BTZ black hole with boundary modulus , is the -image of the Virasoro vacuum character, . This obje…