16–20 Nov 2020
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone

To average or not to average

18 Nov 2020, 17:00
1h
Virtual conference only (CERN)

Virtual conference only

CERN

Speaker

Jan de Boer

Description

Abstract:
In this talk I will describe a possible interpretation of genus two wormholes in AdS3 in terms of a
suitable averaging procedure in the dual field theory, and connect this to random properties of
OPE coefficients. I will discuss possible lessons from this for the question whether or not gravity
is intrinsically an averaged theory. Mostly based on arXiv:2006.05499 with Alex Belin.

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