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Open AccessOPE statistics from higher-point crossing
We present new asymptotic formulas for the distribution of OPE coefficients in conformal field theories. These formulas involve products of four or more coefficients and include light-light-heavy as well as he...
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Open AccessOn the Virasoro six-point identity block and chaos
We study six-point correlation functions in two dimensional conformal field theory, where the six operators are grouped in pairs with equal conformal dimension. Assuming large central charge c and a sparse spectr...
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Open AccessInside out: meet the operators inside the horizon. On bulk reconstruction behind causal horizons
Based on the work of Heemskerk, Marolf, Polchinski and Sully (HMPS), we study the reconstruction of operators behind causal horizons in time dependent geometries obtained by acting with shockwaves on pure stat...
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Open AccessMarginal deformations & rotating horizons
Motivated by the near-horizon geometry of four-dimensional extremal black holes, we study a disordered quantum mechanical system invariant under a global SU(2) symmetry. As in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, this...
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Open AccessFrom conformal blocks to path integrals in the Vaidya geometry
Correlators in conformal field theory are naturally organized as a sum over conformal blocks. In holographic theories, this sum must reorganize into a path integral over bulk fields and geometries. We explore ...
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Open AccessDisordered quivers and cold horizons
We analyze the low temperature structure of a supersymmetric quiver quantum mechanics with randomized superpotential coefficients, treating them as quenched disorder. These theories describe features of the lo...
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Open AccessBlack hole collapse in the 1/c expansion
We present a first-principles CFT calculation corresponding to the spherical collapse of a shell of matter in three dimensional quantum gravity. In field theory terms, we describe the equilibration process, fr...
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Open AccessHolographic vitrification
We establish the existence of stable and metastable stationary black hole bound states at finite temperature and chemical potentials in global and planar four-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter space. W...
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Open AccessConformal quivers and melting molecules
Quiver quantum mechanics describes the low energy dynamics of a system of wrapped D-branes. It captures several aspects of single and multicentered BPS black hole geometries in four-dimensional ...
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Open Accessde Sitter supersymmetry revisited
We present the basic N $$ \mathc...
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Supergoop dynamics
We initiate a systematic study of the dynamics of multi-particle systems with supersymmetric Van der Waals and electron-monopole type interactions. The static interaction allows a complex continuum of ground s...
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Incompressible fluids of the de Sitter horizon and beyond
There are (at least) two surfaces of particular interest in eternal de Sitter space. One is the timelike hypersurface constituting the lab wall of a static patch observer and the other is the future boundary o...
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Hot halos and galactic glasses (carbonado)
We initiate a systematic study of the state space of non-extremal, stationary black hole bound states in four-dimensional $ \mathcal{N...
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A De Sitter hoedown
Rotating black holes in de Sitter space are known to have interesting limits where the temperatures of the black hole and cosmological horizon are equal. We give a complete description of the thermal phase str...
