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Coarse-graining in time, emergent temperature in 2d CFT at large central charge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-08 v1

Abstract

Using the monodromy method, a compact expression is obtained for the identity block contribution to the expectation value of two low-energy probe operators on a broad class of time-dependent heavy pure states in large-cc 2d CFTs. It will be shown that the size of the compact spatial dimension sets a coarse-graining time-scale above which the thermal two-point function naturally emerges. A phenomena will be highlighted where the information of the pure state appears to get projected down to a single conformal representation. We will see that this projection is corroborated by known conformal bootstrap results.

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@article{arxiv.2512.05197,
  title  = {Coarse-graining in time, emergent temperature in 2d CFT at large central charge},
  author = {Gideon Vos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.05197},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

33 pages, 10 figures, 2 appendices, comments welcome