Euclidean Wormholes in Holography and their relation to Wilson Loops

by Dr Olga Papadoulaki (Ecole Polytechnique (FR))

Wednesday 24 Apr 2024, 17:00 → 18:00 Europe/Athens

B228 (ΘΕΕ02)

Abstract: Euclidean wormholes are exotic types of gravitational solutions that still challenge our physical intuition and understanding. After reviewing universal properties of asymptotically AdS wormhole solutions from a gravitational (bulk) point of view and the paradoxes they raise, I will describe some concrete (microscopic) field theoretic setups and models that exhibit such properties. These models can be reduced to matrix integrals and crucially involve correlated ("entangled") sums of representations of the boundary symmetry group. I will conclude with the realisation of such set-up in N=4 SYM/type IIB SUGRA.