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Title: The bulk-to-boundary propagator in black hole microstate backgrounds

Abstract

First-quantized propagation in quantum gravitational AdS3 backgrounds can be exactly reconstructed using CFT2 data and Virasoro symmetry. We develop methods to compute the bulk-to-boundary propagator in a black hole microstate, ⟨ϕLOLOHOH⟩, at finite central charge. As a first application, we show that the semiclassical theory on the Euclidean BTZ solution sharply disagrees with the exact description, as expected based on the resolution of forbidden thermal singularities, though this effect may appear exponentially small for physical observers.

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ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [1];  [1]
  1. Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
  2. Boston Univ., MA (United States)
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Research Org.:
Boston Univ., MA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1612333
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1833189
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0015845
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2019; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; physics; 1/N expansion; AdS-CFT correspondence; black holes; Conformal Field Theory

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Chen, Hongbin, Fitzpatrick, A. Liam, Kaplan, Jared, and Li, Daliang. The bulk-to-boundary propagator in black hole microstate backgrounds. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1007/jhep06(2019)107.
Chen, Hongbin, Fitzpatrick, A. Liam, Kaplan, Jared, & Li, Daliang. The bulk-to-boundary propagator in black hole microstate backgrounds. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2019)107
Chen, Hongbin, Fitzpatrick, A. Liam, Kaplan, Jared, and Li, Daliang. Thu . "The bulk-to-boundary propagator in black hole microstate backgrounds". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2019)107. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1612333.
@article{osti_1612333,
title = {The bulk-to-boundary propagator in black hole microstate backgrounds},
author = {Chen, Hongbin and Fitzpatrick, A. Liam and Kaplan, Jared and Li, Daliang},
abstractNote = {First-quantized propagation in quantum gravitational AdS3 backgrounds can be exactly reconstructed using CFT2 data and Virasoro symmetry. We develop methods to compute the bulk-to-boundary propagator in a black hole microstate, ⟨ϕLOLOHOH⟩, at finite central charge. As a first application, we show that the semiclassical theory on the Euclidean BTZ solution sharply disagrees with the exact description, as expected based on the resolution of forbidden thermal singularities, though this effect may appear exponentially small for physical observers.},
doi = {10.1007/jhep06(2019)107},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 6,
volume = 2019,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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