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A TQFT Approach to 3d Gravity

Mengyang Zhang

The connection between 3d pure gravity and Chern-Simons theory has been proposed and studied for decades. In this talk, I will give a brief review of the works 2304.13650 and 2401.13900 with Scott Collier and Lorenz Eberhardt, where we sharpen this...

Conformal Field Theory (CFT) represents a class of quantum field theories that has profound applications across various physics domains, from critical phenomena in statistical mechanics to quantum matter, quantum gravity, and string theory. In this...

AdS3/RMT2 Duality

Eric Perlmutter

We introduce a framework for quantifying random matrix behavior of 2d CFTs and AdS3 quantum gravity. This is anchored by a 2d CFT trace formula, analogous to the Gutzwiller trace formula for chaotic quantum systems. We use this framework to...

The Bekenstein bound posits a maximum entropy for matter with finite energy confined to a spacetime region. It is often interpreted as a fundamental limit on the information that can be stored by physical objects. In this work, we test this...

Cosmology from Random Entanglement

Stefano Antonini

Obtaining a description of cosmology is a central open problem in holography. Studying simple models can help us gain insight on the generic properties of holographic cosmologies. In this talk I will describe the construction of entangled...