The double cone geometry is stable to brane nucleation

Raghu Mahajan (Department of Physics, Stanford University, 382 via Pueblo, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA) ; Donald Marolf (Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA) ; Jorge Santos (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, U.K.)

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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Published on:
23 September 2021
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Springer
Published in:
Journal of High Energy Physics , Volume 2021 (2021)
Issue 9
Pages 1-32
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2021)156
arXiv:
2104.00022
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