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hep-th2026

The Lorentzian Geometry of Tunneling in Global de Sitter at Late Time

Thibaut Coudarchet, Ben Freivogel, Bjoern Hassfeld +1

It is widely believed that Coleman--De Luccia (CDL) instantons characterize tunneling transitions in a de Sitter multiverse. Their most naive interpretation uses analytic continuat…

hep-th2026

JT gravity on the worldline

Ben Freivogel, Alessandro Fumagalli, Diego M. Hofman

The paper analyzes a one‑dimensional quantum system living on a bulk worldline coupled to Euclidean AdS JT gravity, deriving exact propagators and studying fluctuations of Euclidea…

hep-th2026

Quantum Fluctuations of the Black Hole Horizon

Ben Freivogel, Antony Speranza, Erik Verlinde

Classical black holes have sharply defined event horizons, but quantum mechanically the horizon acquires a quantum uncertainty, called the `quantum width' by Marolf. We propose a d…

hep-th2026

Large Quantum Gravity Fluctuations of BTZ Black Holes

Ben Freivogel, Upamanyu Moitra

We study the quantum fluctuations of the black hole horizon in three-dimensional Anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime. We define a precise protocol to calculate the horizon fluctuations…

hep-th2026

How traversable is a traversable wormhole?

Ben Freivogel, Alessandro Fumagalli, Marija Tomašević

To answer the above question, we study low-frequency scattering in the four-dimensional traversable wormhole of Maldacena, Milekhin, and Popov. The resulting transmission probabili…

hep-th2025

On the positivity of light-ray operators

Ben Freivogel, Hidde Stoffels

We consider light-ray operators , where is a null coordinate and a positive integer, in QFT in Minkowski spacetime…