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On geodesic propagators and black hole holography

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One of the most challenging technical aspects of the dualities between string theory on anti-de Sitter spaces and conformal field theories is understanding how location in the interior of spacetime is represented in the field theory. It has recently been argued that the interior of the spacetime can be directly probed by using intrinsically non-local quantities in the field theory. In addition, Balasubramanian and Ross [hep-th/9906226] argued that when the spacetime described the formation of an AdS_3 black hole, the propagator in the field theory probed the whole spacetime, including the region behind the horizon. We use the same approach to study the propagator for the BTZ black hole and a black hole solution with a single exterior region, and show that it reproduces the propagator associated with the natural vacuum states on these spacetimes. We compare our result with a toy model of the CFT for the single-exterior black hole, finding remarkable agreement. The spacetimes studied in this work are analytic, which makes them quite special. We also discuss the interpretation of this propagator in more general spacetimes, shedding light on certain issues involving causality, black hole horizons, and products of local operators on the boundary.

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Universal Time Evolution of Holographic and Quantum Complexity

hep-th · 2025-07-31 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Holographic complexity measures show universal linear growth followed by late-time saturation, proven necessary and sufficient via pole structures in the energy basis using the residue theorem, arising from random matrix statistics.

Thermal two-point functions in SYK and complex-time singularities

hep-th · 2026-07-06 · conditional · novelty 6.0

The large-N SYK thermal two-point function exhibits complex-time singularities—an effective-temperature pole and a subleading bouncing-geodesic-like singularity—that persist from infinite to zero temperature.

(Un)solvable Matrix Models for BPS Correlators

hep-th · 2025-08-27 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Proposes complex matrix models for BPS correlators in N=4 SYM, relating eigenvalue distributions to LLM droplet shapes and enabling computations of one-point functions and three-point correlators via reductions to known models.

Algebraic traversable wormholes

hep-th · 2025-08-18 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Proposes a new large N limit dual to back-reacted traversable wormholes via algebra-at-infinity operators and algebraically reproduces the Maldacena-Stanford-Yang result on left-right observer effects.

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  • Universal Time Evolution of Holographic and Quantum Complexity hep-th · 2025-07-31 · unverdicted · none · ref 44 · internal anchor

    Holographic complexity measures show universal linear growth followed by late-time saturation, proven necessary and sufficient via pole structures in the energy basis using the residue theorem, arising from random matrix statistics.

  • Thermal two-point functions in SYK and complex-time singularities hep-th · 2026-07-06 · conditional · none · ref 4 · internal anchor

    The large-N SYK thermal two-point function exhibits complex-time singularities—an effective-temperature pole and a subleading bouncing-geodesic-like singularity—that persist from infinite to zero temperature.

  • (Un)solvable Matrix Models for BPS Correlators hep-th · 2025-08-27 · unverdicted · none · ref 50 · internal anchor

    Proposes complex matrix models for BPS correlators in N=4 SYM, relating eigenvalue distributions to LLM droplet shapes and enabling computations of one-point functions and three-point correlators via reductions to known models.

  • Algebraic traversable wormholes hep-th · 2025-08-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 37 · internal anchor

    Proposes a new large N limit dual to back-reacted traversable wormholes via algebra-at-infinity operators and algebraically reproduces the Maldacena-Stanford-Yang result on left-right observer effects.

  • Heavy holographic correlators in defect conformal field theories hep-th · 2026-01-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 55 · internal anchor

    Holographic probe-brane calculations produce defect one- and two-point functions of heavy scalars that match OPE and BOE limits.

  • Photon spheres and bulk probes in $\text{AdS}_3$/$\text{CFT}_2$: the quantum BTZ black hole hep-th · 2026-03-10 · unverdicted · none · ref 3 · internal anchor

    Conditions for boundary-anchored geodesics are derived in all branches of the quantum BTZ black hole, supporting a conjecture that photon spheres enable space-like connections between time-like separated boundary points.