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Thermal correlators in holographic conformal field theories are known to exhibit singularities in complex time, sometimes referred to as ``bouncing singularities", which are believed to be related to bulk geodesics probing the black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Simone Giombi , Yue-Zhou Li , Jieru Shan

The region near a black hole horizon may be modified by quantum gravity effects that resolve the singularity. Such geometry may be represented by an exotic compact object. Because the horizon is enclosed by a photon sphere, it is difficult…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Heng-Yu Chen , Yasuaki Hikida , Yasutaka Koga

We explore physics behind the horizon in eternal AdS Schwarzschild black holes. In dimension d >3, where the curvature grows large near the singularity, we find distinct but subtle signals of this singularity in the boundary CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Lukasz Fidkowski , Veronika Hubeny , Matthew Kleban , Stephen Shenker

Eternal asymptotically AdS black holes are dual to thermofield double states in the boundary CFT. It has long been known that black hole singularities have certain signatures in boundary thermal two-point functions related to null geodesics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-29 Nejc Čeplak , Hong Liu , Andrei Parnachev , Samuel Valach

We discuss the relation between singularities of correlation functions and causal properties of the bulk spacetime in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In particular, we argue that the boundary field theory correlation functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Veronika E Hubeny , Hong Liu , Mukund Rangamani

Bouncing geodesics have been used as valuable probes of black hole singularities. In the dual boundary theory, the presence of bouncing geodesics is encoded in the analytic structure of correlation functions. Thus, when their existence is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-30 Sašo Grozdanov , Samuel Valach , Mile Vrbica

We consider two-point functions of light fields at finite temperature and large real frequencies in holographic theories. The thermal system is dual to a single-sided AdS black hole. We show that the high-frequency expansion obtained from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Simon Caron-Huot , Joydeep Chakravarty , Alexander Maloney

The horizon of black hole is surrounded by the photon sphere and an outside observer cannot easily examine the geometry inside the photon sphere. In this note, we propose a way to investigate the region from dual conformal field theory by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-23 Heng-Yu Chen , Yasuaki Hikida , Yasutaka Koga

Thermal correlators in holographic CFTs on a sphere exhibit bulk-cone singularities at points connected by null geodesics in the bulk. The operator product expansion analysis of the stress-tensor sector of the correlator shows that there…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Ignacio J. Araya , Chantelle Esper , Yueke Jia , Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev

This thesis explores thermal correlation functions in conformal field theories (CFTs) and their connection to black hole geometry within the AdS/CFT correspondence, using a near-boundary expansion as the main tool. Two themes are examined.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 Samuel Valach

We analyze the singularities of the two-point function in a conformal field theory at finite temperature. In a free theory, the only singularity is along the boundary light cone. In the holographic limit, a new class of singularities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Matthew Dodelson , Hirosi Ooguri

A sharp signature of the black hole singularity in holography is a divergence in the boundary thermal two-point function at a specific point in the complex time plane. This divergence arises from a null geodesic that bounces off the black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Matthew Dodelson , Cristoforo Iossa , Robin Karlsson

The double-cone geometry is a saddle of the gravitational path integral, which explains the chaotic statistics of the spectrum of black hole microstates. This geometry is the usual AdS-Schwarzschild black hole, but with a periodic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-15 Joydeep Chakravarty , Alexander Maloney , Keivan Namjou , Simon F. Ross

Matter falling into a Schwarzschild-AdS black hole from the left causes increased focussing of ingoing geodesics from the right, and, as a consequence, they reach the singularity sooner. In a standard Penrose diagram, the singularity "bends…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-28 Gary T. Horowitz , Henry Leung , Leonel Queimada , Ying Zhao

Two-point functions in BCFTs exhibit characteristic singularities compared to standard CFTs due to reflected light cones. In holographic BCFTs, further singularities, which need not be related to reflected light cones within the BCFT, can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-16 Dongming He , Christoph F. Uhlemann

It was long believed that the singularity inside a realistic, rotating black hole must be spacelike. However, studies of the internal geometry of black holes indicate a more complicated structure is typical. While it seems likely that an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Patrick R Brady , Serge Droz , Sharon M Morsink

We study black hole singularities in the AdS/CFT correspondence. These singularities show up in CFT in the behavior of finite-temperature correlation functions. We first establish a direct relation between space-like geodesics in the bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Guido Festuccia , Hong Liu

We use the identification between null singularities of correlators in the bulk with time singularities in the boundary correlators to study the analytic structure of time-dependent thermal Green functions using the eikonal approximation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-09 Irene Amado , Carlos Hoyos-Badajoz

In the thin wall approximation, we study a class of asymptotically AdS black holes which contain a spherically symmetric vacuum bubble with a different (positive or negative) cosmological constant. Collapsing, expanding, and static bubble…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-05 Roberto Auzzi , Stefano Baiguera , Lihan Guo , Giuseppe Nardelli , Nicolò Zenoni

The singularity structure of charged spherical collapse is studied by considering the evolution of the gravity-scalar field system. A detailed examination of the geometry at late times strongly suggests the validity of the mass-inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Patrick R. Brady , John D. Smith
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