From black holes to baby universes in CGHS gravity

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DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2021)138zbMATH Open1468.83030arXiv2103.13422OpenAlexW3183147775WikidataQ112153846 ScholiaQ112153846MaRDI QIDQ1981509FDOQ1981509

Victor Godet, Charles Marteau

Publication date: 3 September 2021

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

Abstract: We study widehatextCGHS gravity, a variant of the matterless Callan-Giddings-Harvey-Strominger model. We show that it describes a universal sector of the near horizon perturbations of non-extremal black holes in higher dimensions. In many respects this theory can be viewed as a flat space analog of Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. The result for the Euclidean path integral implies that widehatextCGHS is dual to a Gaussian ensemble that we describe in detail. The simplicity of this theory allows us to compute exact quantities such as the quenched free energy and provides a useful playground to study baby universes, averages and factorization. We also give evidence for the existence of a non-perturbative completion in terms of a matrix model. Finally, flat wormhole solutions are discussed.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13422





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