Wormholes and black hole microstates in AdS/CFT

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2021)001zbMath1472.83033arXiv2104.00601MaRDI QIDQ2237548

Kristan Jensen, Jordan S. Cotler

Publication date: 27 October 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It has long been known that the coarse-grained approximation to the black hole density of states can be computed using classical Euclidean gravity. In this work we argue for another entry in the dictionary between Euclidean gravity and black hole physics, namely that Euclidean wormholes describe a coarse-grained approximation to the energy level statistics of black hole microstates. To do so we use the method of constrained instantons to obtain an integral representation of wormhole amplitudes in Einstein gravity and in full-fledged AdS/CFT. These amplitudes are non-perturbative corrections to the two-boundary problem in AdS quantum gravity. The full amplitude is likely UV sensitive, dominated by small wormholes, but we show it admits an integral transformation with a macroscopic, weakly curved saddle-point approximation. The saddle is the "double cone" geometry of Saad, Shenker, and Stanford, with fixed moduli. In the boundary description this saddle appears to dominate a smeared version of the connected two-point function of the black hole density of states, and suggests level repulsion in the microstate spectrum. Using these methods we further study Euclidean wormholes in pure Einstein gravity and in IIB supergravity on Euclidean AdS$_5 imesmathbb{S}^5$. We address the perturbative stability of these backgrounds and study brane nucleation instabilities in 10d supergravity. In particular, brane nucleation instabilities of the Euclidean wormholes are lifted by the analytic continuation required to obtain the Lorentzian spectral form factor from gravity. Our results indicate a factorization paradox in AdS/CFT.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00601

zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondenceblack holes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Supergravity (83E50) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35)

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