The double cone geometry is stable to brane nucleation
Abstract In gauge/gravity duality, the bulk double cone geometry has been argued to account for a key feature of the spectral form factor known as the ramp. This feature is deeply associated with quantum chaos in the dual field theory. The connection with the ramp has been demonstrated in detail for...
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| description | Abstract In gauge/gravity duality, the bulk double cone geometry has been argued to account for a key feature of the spectral form factor known as the ramp. This feature is deeply associated with quantum chaos in the dual field theory. The connection with the ramp has been demonstrated in detail for two-dimensional theories of bulk gravity, but it appears natural in higher dimensions as well. In a general bulk theory the double cone might thus be expected to dominate the semiclassical bulk path integral for the boundary spectral form factor in the ramp regime. While other known spacetime wormholes have been shown to be unstable to brane nucleation when they dominate over known disconnected (factorizing) solutions, we argue below that the double cone is stable to semiclassical brane nucleation at the probe-brane level in a variety of string- and M-theory settings. Possible implications for the AdS/CFT factorization problem are briefly discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-25376248cbfe413391763cf10557198e2022-12-21T21:35:41ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792021-09-012021913210.1007/JHEP09(2021)156The double cone geometry is stable to brane nucleationRaghu Mahajan0Donald Marolf1Jorge E. Santos2Department of Physics, Stanford UniversityDepartment of Physics, University of California at Santa BarbaraDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of CambridgeAbstract In gauge/gravity duality, the bulk double cone geometry has been argued to account for a key feature of the spectral form factor known as the ramp. This feature is deeply associated with quantum chaos in the dual field theory. The connection with the ramp has been demonstrated in detail for two-dimensional theories of bulk gravity, but it appears natural in higher dimensions as well. In a general bulk theory the double cone might thus be expected to dominate the semiclassical bulk path integral for the boundary spectral form factor in the ramp regime. While other known spacetime wormholes have been shown to be unstable to brane nucleation when they dominate over known disconnected (factorizing) solutions, we argue below that the double cone is stable to semiclassical brane nucleation at the probe-brane level in a variety of string- and M-theory settings. Possible implications for the AdS/CFT factorization problem are briefly discussed.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2021)156AdS-CFT CorrespondenceBlack HolesD-branes |
| spellingShingle | Raghu Mahajan Donald Marolf Jorge E. Santos The double cone geometry is stable to brane nucleation Journal of High Energy Physics AdS-CFT Correspondence Black Holes D-branes |
| title | The double cone geometry is stable to brane nucleation |
| title_full | The double cone geometry is stable to brane nucleation |
| title_fullStr | The double cone geometry is stable to brane nucleation |
| title_full_unstemmed | The double cone geometry is stable to brane nucleation |
| title_short | The double cone geometry is stable to brane nucleation |
| title_sort | double cone geometry is stable to brane nucleation |
| topic | AdS-CFT Correspondence Black Holes D-branes |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2021)156 |
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