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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★ 5 cited

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…

hep-th2024★ 30 cited

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-th2023

Probing Supersymmetric Black Holes with Surface Defects

Yiming Chen, Matthew Heydeman, Yifan Wang +1

It has long been conjectured that the large deconfinement phase transition of super-Yang-Mills corresponds via AdS/CFT to the Hawking-Page transit…

hep-th2023★ 72 cited

Solving 3d Gravity with Virasoro TQFT

Scott Collier, Lorenz Eberhardt, Mengyang Zhang

We propose a precise reformulation of 3d quantum gravity with negative cosmological constant in terms of a topological quantum field theory based on the quantization of the Teichmü…

hep-th2023★ 19 cited

S-duality in -deformed CFT

Nathan Benjamin, Scott Collier, Jorrit Kruthoff +2

deformed conformal field theories can be reformulated as worldsheet theories of non-critical strings. We use this correspondence to compute and study the defo…