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Traversability of Multi-Boundary Wormholes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-04-28 v3

Abstract

We generalize the Gao-Jafferis-Wall construction of traversable two-sided wormholes to multi-boundary wormholes. In our construction, we take the background spacetime to be multi-boundary black holes in AdS3_3. We work in the hot limit where the dual CFT state in certain regions locally resembles the thermofield double state. Furthermore, in these regions, the hot limit makes the causal shadow exponentially small. Based on these two features of the hot limit, and with the three-boundary wormhole as our main example, we show that traversability between any two asymptotic regions in a multi-boundary wormhole can be triggered using a double-trace deformation. In particular, the two boundary regions need not have the same temperature and angular momentum. We discuss the non-trivial angular dependence of traversability in our construction, as well as the effect of the causal shadow region.

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@article{arxiv.2012.04635,
  title  = {Traversability of Multi-Boundary Wormholes},
  author = {Abdulrahim Al Balushi and Zhencheng Wang and Donald Marolf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.04635},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

v3, fixed some typos

R2 v1 2026-06-23T20:49:29.820Z