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Probing Black Hole Thermal Effects in the Dual CFT via Wave Packets

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-01-23 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We investigate how the gravitational effects of a black hole manifest themselves as thermal behavior in the dual finite-temperature conformal field theory (CFT). In the holographic framework of AdS/CFT, we analyze a wave packet propagating into a black hole geometry in the bulk by computing three-point functions of a scalar primary operator in the boundary CFT. Our setup captures thermal signatures such as exponential damping of the expectation value, which are absent at zero-temperature. This provides a concrete and analytically tractable example of how black hole physics can be probed from the CFT side.

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@article{arxiv.2601.04647,
  title  = {Probing Black Hole Thermal Effects in the Dual CFT via Wave Packets},
  author = {Norihiro Tanahashi and Seiji Terashima and Shiki Yoshikawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.04647},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

43 pages, 8 figures. v2: Minor typo fixes. Updated hyperref settings to fix citation and equation links