The Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (ASC)
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The Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (ASC) in Munich regularly organizes workshops and conferences on special topics in theoretical physics, sometimes in collaboration with other institutes in Munich, like the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP). A selection can be found in this channel.
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The Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (ASC) in Munich regularly organizes workshops and conferences on special topics in theoretical physics, sometimes in collaboration with other institutes in Munich, like the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP). A selection can be found in this channel.
The OPE Randomness Hypothesis and Euclidean Wormholes
ASC Workshops
1 hour 4 minutes 31 seconds
4 years ago
The OPE Randomness Hypothesis and Euclidean Wormholes
Recent developments in holography indicate that the semi-classical Euclidean path-integral of Einstein gravity is much more powerful than previously anticipated. It is capable of reproducing a unitary Page curve for black hole evaporation, and can even capture some features of the discrete nature of black hole microstates. Wormhole geometries play a key role in this context. I will propose a mechanism to explain this in the CFT: the OPE Randomness Hypothesis. This ansatz is a generalization of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis which applies to chaotic CFTs, and treats OPE coefficients of heavy operators as random variables with a given probability distribution. I will present two applications of this framework: First, it resolves a factorization puzzle in AdS_3/CFT_2 due to the genus-2 wormhole, as raised by Maoz and Maldacena. Second, it provides an argument against global symmetries in quantum gravity.
ASC Workshops
The Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics (ASC) in Munich regularly organizes workshops and conferences on special topics in theoretical physics, sometimes in collaboration with other institutes in Munich, like the Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP). A selection can be found in this channel.