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Charges in the UV completion of neutral electrodynamics
Valentin Benedetti, Horacio Casini, Javier M. Magan
A theory with a non-compact form-symmetry is described by two closed form fields of degrees k and d-k. Effective theory examples are non-linear electrodynamics, a photon field coup…
Microscopic origin of the entropy of astrophysical black holes
Vijay Balasubramanian, Albion Lawrence, Javier M. Magan +1
We construct an infinite family of microstates for black holes in Minkowski spacetime which have effective semiclassical descriptions in terms of collapsing dust shells in the blac…
Microscopic origin of the entropy of black holes in general relativity
Vijay Balasubramanian, Albion Lawrence, Javier M. Magan +1
We construct an infinite family of microstates with geometric interiors for eternal black holes in general relativity with negative cosmological constant in any dimension. Wormhole…
A Tale of Two Hungarians: Tridiagonalizing Random Matrices
Vijay Balasubramanian, Javier M. Magan, Qingyue Wu
The Hungarian physicist Eugene Wigner introduced random matrix models in physics to describe the energy spectra of atomic nuclei. As such, the main goal of Random Matrix Theory (RM…
Generalized symmetries and Noether's theorem in QFT
Valentin Benedetti, Horacio Casini, Javier M. Magan
We show that generalized symmetries cannot be charged under a continuous global symmetry having a Noether current. Further, only non-compact generalized symmetries can be charged u…
Quantum chaos and the complexity of spread of states
Vijay Balasubramanian, Pawel Caputa, Javier Magan +1
We propose a measure of quantum state complexity defined by minimizing the spread of the wave-function over all choices of basis. Our measure is controlled by the "survival amplitu…