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We consider a conformally coupled scalar QFT on $2+1$ dimensional static Einstein universe $R \times S^2$, and write down the free theory Hilbert space. We explain that this theory is secretly a QFT in $2+1$ de Sitter space because all the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-11 Guido D'Amico , Nemanja Kaloper

Before we ask what the quantum gravity theory is, it is a legitimate quest to formulate a robust quantum field theory in curved spacetime (QFTCS). Several conceptual problems, especially unitarity loss (pure states evolving into mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

In this work we extensively study the dynamics of excited states created by instantaneous local quenches at two different points, i.e., double local quenches. We focus on setups in two dimensional holographic and free Dirac fermion CFTs. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Pawel Caputa , Tokiro Numasawa , Teppei Shimaji , Tadashi Takayanagi , Zixia Wei

Following arXiv:1501.03019 [hep-th], we study de Sitter space and spherical subregions on a constant boundary Euclidean time slice of the future boundary in the Poincare slicing. We show that as in that case, complex extremal surfaces exist…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-23 K. Narayan

We compute the canonical partition function of 2+1 dimensional de Sitter space using the Euclidean $SU(2)\times SU(2)$ Chern-Simons formulation of 3d gravity with a positive cosmological constant. Firstly, we point out that one can work…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Maximo Banados , Thorsten Brotz , Miguel Ortiz

Large black holes in anti-de Sitter space have positive specific heat and do not evaporate. In order to mimic the behavior of evaporating black holes, one may couple the system to an external bath. In this paper we explore a rich family of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Tarek Anous , Marco Meineri , Pietro Pelliconi , Julian Sonner

It is commonly accepted that states in a conformal field theory correspond to classical spacetimes with Anti-de-Sitter asymptotics. In this work we give a prescription for the CFT states with a dual classical spacetime and, using basic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-21 Marcelo Botta-Cantcheff , Pedro J. Martínez

In this Letter we prove a simple theorem in quantum information theory, which implies that bulk operators in the Anti-de Sitter / Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence can be reconstructed as CFT operators in a spatial subregion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-14 Xi Dong , Daniel Harlow , Aron C. Wall

Within the AdS/CFT correspondence, we identify a class of CFT operators which represent diff-invariant and approximately local observables in the gravitational dual. Provided that the bulk state breaks all asymptotic symmetries, we show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Eyoab Bahiru , Alexandre Belin , Kyriakos Papadodimas , Gabor Sarosi , Niloofar Vardian

In this paper, we generalize the simplified Dark Matter models with graviton mediator to the curved space-time, in particular to the de Sitter space. We obtain the generating functional of the Green's functions in the Euclidean de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-17 Ion V. Vancea

This is a summary of two lectures I gave at the Davis Conference on Cosmic Inflation. I explain why the quantum theory of de Sitter (dS) space should have a finite number of states and explore gross aspects of the hypothetical quantum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Banks

Physical consistency of quantum fields in anti-de Sitter space time requires that the space must be compactified by the inclusion of a boundary where appropriate conditions are imposed. An interpretation for the presence of this boundary is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Henrique Boschi-Filho , Nelson R. F. Braga

One of the key applications of AdS/CFT correspondence is the duality it dictates between the entanglement entropy of Anti-de Sitter (AdS) black holes and lower-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). Here we employ a square lattice of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-08 Aydin Deger , Matthew D. Horner , Jiannis K. Pachos

In this note, we describe a holographic CFT construction of states dual to scalar perturbations of the maximally extended three-dimensional AdS-Schwarzschild black hole. The states are constructed by adding sources for a scalar operator to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-27 Hong Zhe Chen , Mark Van Raamsdonk

For holographic CFT states near the vacuum, entanglement entropies for spatial subsystems can be expressed perturbatively as an expansion in the one-point functions of local operators dual to light bulk fields. Using the connection between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Matthew J. S. Beach , Jaehoon Lee , Charles Rabideau , Mark Van Raamsdonk

The formalism of quantum state space geometry on manifolds of generalised coherent states is proposed as a natural setting for the construction of geometric dual descriptions of non-relativistic quantum systems. These state manifolds are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 J. N. Kriel , H. J. R. van Zyl , F. G. Scholtz

Unitary principal series representations of the conformal group appear in the dS/CFT correspondence. These are infinite dimensional irreducible representations, without highest weights. In earlier work of Guijosa and the author it was shown…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 David A. Lowe

The Euclidean Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space provides a natural framework for studying boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). We analyze the conformal boundary conditions of the critical O$(N)$ model in $d=4-\epsilon$ dimensions using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Simone Giombi , Zimo Sun

We consider the Euclidean vacuum for linearized gravity on the global de Sitter space, obtained from the Euclidean Green's function on the 4-sphere. We use the notion of Calder\'on projectors to recover a quantum state for the Lorentzian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Christian Gérard , Michał Wrochna

We examine the cosmological evolution equations of de Sitter, flat and anti-de Sitter braneworlds sandwiched in between two n dimensional AdS-Schwarzschild spacetimes. We are careful to use the correct form for the induced Newton's constant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Antonio Padilla