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Wormholes from heavy operator statistics in AdS/CFT
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We construct higher dimensional Euclidean AdS wormhole solutions that reproduce the statistical description of the correlation functions of an ensemble of heavy CFT operators. We consider an operator which effectively backreacts on the geometry in the form of a thin shell of dust particles. Assuming dynamical chaos in the form of the ETH ansatz, we demonstrate that the semiclassical path integral provides an effective statistical description of the microscopic features of the thin shell operator in the CFT. The Euclidean wormhole solutions provide microcanonical saddlepoint contributions to the cumulants of the correlation functions over the ensemble of operators. We finally elaborate on the role of these wormholes in the context of non-perturbative violations of bulk global symmetries in AdS/CFT.
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![Figure 1 Geometry of the saddlepoint manifold X for τ ∈ [0 , β/ 2] . The case a ) for τ < τ c , in which the right patch X + does not include the tip of the right disk. The case b ) for τ > τ c , in which the solution includes both tips.](/paper-figures/a2464e2ca44345819e642b00f0053fb4/wormholes-from-heavy-operator-statistics-in-ads-cft-figure-1.png)
![Figure 2 The different regions in the decomposition of the gravitational action I [ X ] . The green region X s accounts for the intrinsic contribution from the shell.](/paper-figures/e8272b6858b249cf9082e6c04e4c3dcc/wormholes-from-heavy-operator-statistics-in-ads-cft-figure-2.png)


![Figure 5 Renormalized action of the wormhole ∆ I [ X ] as a function of the temperature, for d = 2 . The Hawking-Page transition at β HP = 2 π affects the normalization of the amplitude.](/paper-figures/61c0830e3cfd438083f34f2357c92b9e/wormholes-from-heavy-operator-statistics-in-ads-cft-figure-5.png)





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