Quantum geometry and gravitational entropy

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/067zbMATH Open1246.81201arXiv0705.4431OpenAlexW2015376320WikidataQ62398152 ScholiaQ62398152MaRDI QIDQ446695FDOQ446695

Authors: Vijay Balasubramanian, Klaus Larjo, Donald Marolf, Joan Simón, Bartłomiej Czech 

Publication date: 8 September 2012

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

Abstract: Most quantum states have wavefunctions that are widely spread over the accessible Hilbert space and hence do not have a good description in terms of a single classical geometry. In order to understand when geometric descriptions are possible, we exploit the AdS/CFT correspondence in the half-BPS sector of asymptotically AdS_5 x S^5 universes. In this sector we devise a "coarse-grained metric operator" whose eigenstates are well described by a single spacetime topology and geometry. We show that such half-BPS universes have a non-vanishing entropy if and only if the metric is singular, and that the entropy arises from coarse-graining the geometry. Finally, we use our entropy formula to find the most entropic spacetimes with fixed asymptotic moments beyond the global charges.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4431

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zbMATH Keywords

AdS/CFT correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Black holes (83C57) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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• The gravitational description of coarse grained microstates

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