Replica wormhole geometries justify the replica trick computation of the Page curve in holographic black hole models and support entanglement wedge reconstruction via the Petz map.
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JT gravity as a matrix integral
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We present exact results for partition functions of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity on two-dimensional surfaces of arbitrary genus with an arbitrary number of boundaries. The boundaries are of the type relevant in the NAdS${}_2$/NCFT${}_1$ correspondence. We show that the partition functions correspond to the genus expansion of a certain matrix integral. A key fact is that Mirzakhani's recursion relation for Weil-Petersson volumes maps directly onto the Eynard-Orantin "topological recursion" formulation of the loop equations for this matrix integral. The matrix integral provides a (non-unique) nonperturbative completion of the genus expansion, sensitive to the underlying discreteness of the matrix eigenvalues. In matrix integral descriptions of noncritical strings, such effects are due to an infinite number of disconnected worldsheets connected to D-branes. In JT gravity, these effects can be reproduced by a sum over an infinite number of disconnected geometries -- a type of D-brane logic applied to spacetime.
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JT gravity in a box is quantized exactly by recasting its dynamics as Pöschl-Teller scattering, producing closed-form wavefunctions and correlators with finite-cutoff corrections beyond T Tbar.
Develops negative-variance Gaussian theory and proves timelike DOZZ formula plus k-point functions for timelike Liouville theory under charge neutrality, with semiclassical limits as coupling goes to zero.
Replica wormholes in the gravitational path integral yield the island rule for the fine-grained entropy of Hawking radiation, ensuring it follows the unitary Page curve in two-dimensional dilaton gravity.
Hawking radiation entropy follows the Page curve when quantum extremal surfaces are identified with RT/HRT surfaces in a higher-dimensional holographic dual, making the black hole interior part of the radiation's entanglement wedge.
A phase transition in the quantum RT surface at the Page time derives the Page curve and enables entanglement wedge reconstruction of the black hole interior from Hawking radiation.
Holographic banners are four-argument on-shell actions that map thermofield double boundary states to future interior semiclassical states and yield BKL mixing timescales in AdS black holes.
For q-deformed bipartite planar maps, boundary geodesic chord diagrams are distributed exactly as in the double-scaled SYK model, with weights depending only on crossing number.
Defines Boltzmann-Wasserstein distance on quantum theories via optimal W2 transport of Boltzmann-weighted spectra, equates it to thermal correlators, and constructs a Schwinger-Keldysh wormhole saddle that reproduces the spectral optimum.
Analytical all-time expressions for Green's and OTOC functions in 4-body SYK model show early exponential growth then decay, followed by late-time dip-ramp-plateau patterns deviating from ergodic predictions due to local energy correlations for N mod 8 = 2,6.
In JT gravity with an end-of-the-world brane, the renormalized interior length — read as subsystem complexity — grows linearly, peaks around the Page time, and then decays exponentially, with growing relative fluctuations afterward.
Projective geometry and Cayley transformations provide a common framework for the free particle-oscillator correspondences via the Schwarzian cocycle.
Non-orientable topological gravity produces a resummed topological expansion whose late-time behavior matches the GOE universality class of random matrix theory for time-reversal invariant chaotic systems.
Summing non-perturbative contributions in the gravitational path integral, extended via matrix integral saddles including one- and two-eigenvalue instantons, resolves negativity of bulk entropies in two-sided black holes.
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.
The Hartle-Hawking state for toroidal quantum cosmologies is expressed in the Langlands decomposition as a sum over zeta zeros whose near-singularity dynamics follow the Hilbert-Pólya Hamiltonian and as a Möbius average of CFT partition functions.
Wormhole solutions with imaginary scalars set an Imaginary Distance Bound on analytic continuation of couplings, enforced by stringy effects that coincide with WGC and KSW in special cases.
Berry curvature of BPS states is random-matrix-like for supersymmetric black hole microstates but non-random and often zero for horizonless geometries, offering a chaos diagnostic in degenerate sectors.
Traffic distributions of certain deterministic matrices determine the limiting dynamics of general first-order methods, and a new unified approximate message passing algorithm is introduced whose state remains conditionally Gaussian for a broad class of input matrices.
The finite-cutoff JT gravity disk amplitude is reproduced via open-channel operators as a boundary-state matrix element, with the geodesic sector shown to be bandlimited and the branch-difference amplitude not equivalent to the thermal trace of any single lower-bounded β-independent Hamiltonian.
The perturbative c=1 string S-matrix equals a double-scaled matrix integral on the spectral curve x=2√2 cos(z), y=sin(z), establishing a worldsheet–MQM–matrix-integral triality.
Correlators of many integrable models are specializations of universal formulae built from one defining function via KdV/Gel'fand–Dikii structure, including a new closed form for V_{4,n}.
The charge-sector coefficient of the Type-IIB axion-dilaton wormhole partition function is shown to be a chiral Wishart hard-edge limit of the D(-1)/D3 super-ADHM collective-coordinate integral.
High-energy CFT and black-hole interval counts are conjectured to obey the FHK extreme-value law; the resulting O(1) erratic fluctuations limit semiclassical AdS precision to e^{-S0}.
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Rigorous results for timelike Liouville field theory
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The Page curve of Hawking radiation from semiclassical geometry
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Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox
A phase transition in the quantum RT surface at the Page time derives the Page curve and enables entanglement wedge reconstruction of the black hole interior from Hawking radiation.
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Double-scaled SYK from boundary metrics of planar maps
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Notes on Wasserstein distance and wormholes
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Many-Body Quantum Chaos At All Time Scales
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Evaporating Black Hole Interior and Complexity Evolution
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Mind the crosscap: $\tau$-scaling in non-orientable gravity and time-reversal-invariant systems
Non-orientable topological gravity produces a resummed topological expansion whose late-time behavior matches the GOE universality class of random matrix theory for time-reversal invariant chaotic systems.
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Living on the edge: a non-perturbative resolution to the negativity of bulk entropies
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Universal Time Evolution of Holographic and Quantum Complexity
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M\"obius randomness in the Hartle-Hawking state
The Hartle-Hawking state for toroidal quantum cosmologies is expressed in the Langlands decomposition as a sum over zeta zeros whose near-singularity dynamics follow the Hilbert-Pólya Hamiltonian and as a Möbius average of CFT partition functions.
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Wormholes and the imaginary distance bound
Wormhole solutions with imaginary scalars set an Imaginary Distance Bound on analytic continuation of couplings, enforced by stringy effects that coincide with WGC and KSW in special cases.
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Chaos of Berry curvature for BPS microstates
Berry curvature of BPS states is random-matrix-like for supersymmetric black hole microstates but non-random and often zero for horizonless geometries, offering a chaos diagnostic in degenerate sectors.
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Universality of first-order methods on random and deterministic matrices
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Open-Channel Operator Closure of the Finite-Cutoff JT Gravity Disk Amplitude
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Universal formulae for correlators of a broad class of models
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On the temperature dependence of quasinormal modes in SYK and holography
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Emergent Closed Universes in Symmetric Orbifold CFTs
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All the D-Branes of Resurgence
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Multicritical Dynamical Triangulations and Topological Recursion
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