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The baby universe is fine and the CFT knows it: on holography for closed universes
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A bstract: Big bang/big crunch closed universes can be realized in AdS/CFT, even though they lack asymptotically AdS boundaries. With enough bulk entanglement, the bulk Hilbert space of a closed universe can be holographically encoded in the CFT. We clarify the relation of this encoding to observer-clone proposals and refute recent arguments about the breakdown of semiclassical physics in such spaces. In the limit of no bulk entanglement, the holographic encoding breaks down. The oft-cited one-dimensional nature of the closed universe Hilbert space represents the limitation of the external (CFT) Hilbert space to access the quantum information in the closed universe, similar to the limitations imposed on observers outside a perfectly isolated quantum lab. We advocate that the CFT nevertheless continues to determine the physical properties of the closed universe in this regime, showing how to interpret this relationship in terms of a final state projection in the closed universe. We provide a dictionary between the final state wavefunction and CFT data. We propose a model of the emergence of an arrow of time in the universe with a given initial or final state projection. Finally, we show that the conventional EFT in the closed universe, without any projection, can be recovered as a maximally ignorant description of the final state. This conventional EFT is encoded in CFT data, and it can be probed by computing coarse-grained observables. We provide an example of one such observable. Taken together, these results amount to a clean bill of health for baby universes born of AdS/CFT. A video abstract is available at https://youtu.be/s_9VqF-N8uQ .
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The paper revisits the AS2 construction of big-bang/big-crunch closed universes in AdS/CFT and argues that a large closed universe can remain semiclassical even when its Hilbert space appears one-dimensional from the CFT. It refutes a recent SWAP-test argument against semiclassicality, proposes a final-state-projection dictionary between the closed-universe wavefunction and CFT data, and shows conventional closed-universe EFT can be recovered by coarse-graining over final states.
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- In the AS2 model, bulk entanglement between the closed universe and AdS regions can be large. In AdS₅×S⁵, the AdS gas entropy is \(S(lr)=(E\ell)^{9/10}\), allowed up to \(E\ell \lesssim O(N^{20/17})\), with \(S(lr)=O(N^{18/17})\) at the transition; the closed-universe entropy is \(S(c)=(m\ell)^2 N^{50/17}\) for \(O(N^2/\lambda^{1/2}) \ll m\ell \ll O(N^2)\), and \(S(c)=m\ell\, N^{16/17}\) for \(O(N^2) \ll m\ell\). The holographic encoding is approximately isometric when \(4S(lr)-3S(c)\gg 1\), effectively isometric when \(S(lr)\gg \log S(c)\), highly non-isometric when \(S(lr)\lesssim \log S(c)\), and breaks down at zero entanglement.
- The EG SWAP test is argued to reduce to the boundary SWAP; for a pure CFT state its expectation value is unity, so it cannot distinguish whether a closed universe is present. The one-dimensional closed-universe Hilbert space is interpreted as the external CFT’s inability to access the closed universe, not as a breakdown of semiclassical physics inside it.
- The paper proposes a final-state projection picture: the CFT determines the final state \(|O_c\rangle\) via the dictionary “final state wavefunction \(\leftrightarrow\) CFT light-light matrix elements of the heavy shell operator \(O\),” \(\Psi_I^O=O_I\). ETH makes this final state quasi-random; averaging over final states gives the maximally mixed \(\rho=\frac{1}{d_c}\mathbb{1}_c\), recovering conventional EFT, while independent replica averaging gives \(\mathrm{rank}(\rho)=d_c\) and correlated averaging gives \(\mathrm{rank}(\rho)=1\).
- CFT experiments can probe closed-universe geometry even at zero entanglement. For example, a two-point function is \(G(\alpha)=e^{-m_A L(\alpha)}\), with \(L(\alpha)=2\ell\log[2\sinh((\alpha+\Delta\tau)/\ell)]\) and \(r_0=\ell\sinh((\alpha+\Delta\tau)/\ell)\); an arrow-of-time toy model yields a Schrödinger-cat-like ground state with eigenvalues \(E_{--}(1\pm|\zeta|+\cdots)\).
Methods
- Reviews and expands the AS2 semiclassical state: two asymptotically AdS regions plus a closed universe supported by a thin dust shell, prepared by Euclidean CFT path integrals/PETS and analyzed via gravitational path-integral saddles and wormholes.
- Uses a random tensor network/MERA model of the holographic map \(W\), Marchenko-Pastur eigenvalue statistics for \(W^\dagger W\), and an ETH ensemble of heavy operators to compute overlaps, variances, Hilbert-space dimensions, and coarse-grained final states.
- Proposes CFT protocols with heralded controlled operations and Euclidean evolution to measure matrix elements and reconstruct bulk geometry; includes a canonical quantum gravity argument and numerical exact diagonalization for the arrow-of-time toy model.
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- Stated: the authors do not claim AdS/CFT will be essential or even useful for describing closed universes in general; the tensor network leaves out details of a full holographic CFT; the Appendix C canonical quantum gravity derivation sweeps many issues under the rug; it is unclear whether local physics from a pure initial/final decoherence functional recovers standard quantum mechanics; complexity limitations are ignored in the proposed CFT experiments; the ETH ansatz for light-light matrix elements lies beyond conventional ETH, with evidence mainly from 2D CFTs and gravity.
- Evident: the results rely on the specific AS2 construction, the heavy-shell limit, Gaussian random tensor/ETH assumptions, and AdS/CFT; no full UV completion or general treatment of arbitrary cosmological singularities is provided.
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![Figure 2 Tensor network model in [6] for the microstate.](/paper-figures/2cd5cfe89622496699397cf1cc2c3a01/the-baby-universe-is-fine-and-the-cft-knows-it-on-holography-for-closed-figure-2.png)


![Figure 5 The Euclidean wormhole reproducing the variance of the norm of the microstate over an ensemble of Gaussian microscopic thin shell operators. The boundary vertical black lines connect the bra and ket contours in the CFT Hilbert spaces, where all of the microscopic states live. For a detailed construction of this wormhole, see [6].](/paper-figures/56da4d465050472aa126c64acdcb9078/the-baby-universe-is-fine-and-the-cft-knows-it-on-holography-for-closed-figure-5.png)


![Figure 8 Left : Two representations of the bulk saddle computing x Ψ j | Ψ i y . The blue line is the (dominant) matter geodesic and the red line pinches off in the heavy shell limit. The bottom diagram is more like those used to discuss closed cosmologies. Notice that the 'past' and 'future' boundaries (or 'bra' and 'ket') are not disconnected due to the external regions connecting to the CFT: this plays a similar role to the observer lines in [52]. Right : Two-boundary wormhole computing the square of the overlap. The front face gives Tr p ρ 2 l q , the back computes Tr p ρ 2 r q . This reflects how the external observer-like lines connect between copies through the bulk.](/paper-figures/5a8b77890c684cefbe015f943d3dcd43/the-baby-universe-is-fine-and-the-cft-knows-it-on-holography-for-closed-figure-8.png)

![Figure 10 The causal wedge SWAP operator S LR as defined in [60] also swaps the closed universes and has unit expectation value.](/paper-figures/8e1bcc0921254f3686a3f8a24c497399/the-baby-universe-is-fine-and-the-cft-knows-it-on-holography-for-closed-figure-10.png)













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“From a counting argument, it then follows from (2.21) that with extremely high probability, the map acts effectively isometrically for all of them as long as the entropy in the closed universe remains sub-exponential in the entropy of the AdS spaces, Splrq “ log Spcq (see [6,68]).”
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“the two-replica wormhole of [6] predicts a statistical variance to the norm of the state”
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“Z 2 ´Z2 Z 2 “ e ´S2 pρ lr q , (2.9)”
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“Its contribution to the overlap is G ij “ δ ij xψ lb |ψ lb y xψ 1 cr |ψ 1 cr y Z 0 e ´mi L i . (3.3)”
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“If these entangled pairs are introduced by inserting particles in the Euclidean preparation, in such a way that they follow geodesics and have well determined positions, we can write the entangled bulk state as |ωy “”
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“which is determined by the second Rényi entropy of the state of the AdS gases S 2 pρ lr q “ S 2 pρ l q ` S 2 pρ r q, as the state is factorized”
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“An “external observer α” measures the global SWAP operator of the gases lr (the full LR SWAP), with expectation value 1.”
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“the rest mass of the shell is essentially mℓ « n∆, where n is the number of particles and ∆ “ 1 is the conformal dimension of the single-particle CFT primary.”
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“At low energies, we have AdS spaces which can accommodate gases of particles with an entropy Splrq “ pEℓq 9{10 , (2.10)”
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“The presence of the shell does not modify that the dominant Euclidean saddle point is the one in Figure 4 provided that |Ψ LB y and |Ψ 1 CR y correspond to entangled states of two gases of particles in two disconnected AdS factors.”
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“For the random tensor model of Figure 7, the overlap between two states |ψ M y , |ϕ M y is preserved on average, up to exponentially small errors in the entropy,”
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“The expectation value of the partial SWAP operator for the external gas (the R CFT SWAP) is the maximum between e ´S2 prq and e ´S2 plq , just like in [58].”
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“In this random tensor model, W : W corresponds to a Wishart random matrix.”
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“Therefore, the Euclidean manifold effectively factorizes into two Euclidean manifolds.”
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“On average over the Gaussian random state |O c y, the map W is isometric, W : W “ 1 M for any ratio of the bond dimensions.”
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“The variance of the dimension, computed gravitationally, vanishes, up to possible off-shell contributions.”
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“In our setup, this is simply bulk entanglement entropy between the closed universe and AdS r .”
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“The semiclassical state is prepared by a Euclidean gravitational solution with boundary conditions fixed by the corresponding CFT path integral, as shown in Figure 4.”
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“The results for a closed universe presented there are reproduced in our setup using the language of observers as described in this section.”
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“The mass density of the shell remains parametrically smaller than the Planck density.”
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“In the large bond dimension limit, the eigenvalues λ of W : W are distributed according to the Marchenko-Pastur distribution [96]”
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“λ ˘“ p1 ˘?rq 2 . (2.15)”
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“This expression agrees with the variance-to-norm squared ratio of Z over an ensemble of microscopic thin shell operators.”
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“If the mass of the shell is sufficiently large, its trajectory always remains in the asymptotic AdS region in the Euclidean diagram of Figure 4, independent of other matter fields.”
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“From (3.5) and the higher moments, a conventional resolvent calculation outlined in [6] yields that the states |Ψ i y span the microcanonical Hilbert space dimension of the clone, dimpH Ob 1 q “ rankpG ij q “ e Splrq . (3.6)”
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“Regardless of whether we consider a bulk description with or without a closed universe (Descriptions 1 and 2 in AR, respectively), the expectation value of the SWAP operator will always give unity.”
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“In this case, there is an effectively isometric encoding (strictly non-isometric) of the closed universe in the CFT.”
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“In the limit of low temperatures, β L,R Ñ 8, the state reduces to”
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“In fact, α is related to the radial location r 0 of the bulk particle in the closed universe at the reflection symmetric slice by”
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“The length is given by”
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“These two states are mapped into each other under time-reversal,”
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“We exhibit a toy model in which the ground state of a Wheeler-DeWitt-like Hamiltonian spontaneously breaks time-reversal symmetry by taking the form of a Schrodinger's cat like state.”
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“However, |Ψ ´y and |Ψ `y are not orthogonal states, so we first construct an orthonormal basis to find the eigenvalues of H SC in the subspace.”
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“Crucially, however, the cross matrix element is small for a generic O,”
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“It is possible that, for special choices of |ψ 0 y and H, both H init and H final can be satisfied, but this is not generic.”
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“The coarse-grained final state is then, using the explicit form of the Gaussian measure”
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“Thus, we find that the average state is maximally mixed”
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“In Section 2.4, we discussed in detail the specific case of Type IIB string theory dual to N”
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“In general, for a pd `1q-dimensional AdS, its entanglement entropy to the closed universe is upper bounded by OpN 2d{p2d´1q q, corresponding to the entropy of the most entropic stable gas in AdS.”
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“The ground state thus amounts to a Schrodinger's cat-like state for time-reversal symmetry.”
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“The statistical average over final states is given by”
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“The matrix element xgs|O piq |gsy, computed in gravity, vanishes.”
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“It follows from (4.6) that the final state of the closed universe is quasi-random.”
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“Finally, we explicitly showed an example of a CFT observable, together with sufficient statistics, which can probe [QFT] in the closed universe even in the absence of any entanglement in the [QFT] description.”
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“This conclusion is unchanged if the measurements are performed within sufficiently small subsystems and one starts from the global decoherence functional.”
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“This contraction can be safely continued until the operator insertions are adjacent to each other at the lattice scale.”
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“Now, when both g init and g final are zero, then any state of the form (4.14) for any |ψy is a zero energy state of H SC .”
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“Within the ETH ensemble of operators, the matrix element xgs|O piq |gsy is a random variable with zero mean and non-zero variance.”
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“Taking the normalization 1{ ?Z i into account, the state (5.13) is the vacuum up to a phase”
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“Because the on-shell gravitational action of the saddle is the same in the numerator and denominator, the two-point function reduces to”
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“As an example, for two replica quantities, the average state is”
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“From the CFT perspective, the answer is clear: the state is pure and the SWAP test will give unity.”
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“the result of such a SWAP test on the CFT state is unit purity.”
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“Using this notation, if we compute expectation values in an α-state instead of in the oscillator vacuum,”
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“Second, the bulk states generically share entanglement between the AdS regions and the closed universe.”
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“The expectation values of two different operators O piq , O pjq are uncorrelated in this approximation,”
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“To recall the basic elements of the setup, there exist entangled states between two copies of a holographic CFT whose dual spacetime is formed by three disconnected pieces: two AdS regions and a crunching closed universe supported by a thin shell of dust.”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“We will find a Page curve-like behavior that allows us to estimate the size of the Hilbert space we are entangling the external system with.”
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“The square of the overlaps has now, in addition to the disconnected contribution, three other saddle point geometries depending on how the thin shells are contracted.”
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“If we try to increase K without bound, the second Rényi of the auxiliary system is limited by the minimum between S 2 pρ l q `S2 pρ r q and S 2 pρ l q `S2 pβ N q.”
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“In this limit, the Euclidean action I E has local divergences that can be renormalized with suitable counterterms using a conventional scheme of holographic renormalization.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > C Gravitational argument for the final state wavefunction
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“Using multiple thin shells, we can construct closed universes that have geometric features not present in the ones discussed in the main text.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > B Closed universe with a geometric bottleneck
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“The renormalized final state wavefunction is then equal to the CFT path integral lim aÑ8 Ψpa, ĥij , ϕ I q ren”
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“The typical size of the variance of the inner products is thus controlled by the competition between the various terms,”
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“Moreover, the physical scale at which the gluing takes place precisely matches the mass-dependence of R ˚in (2.3).”
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“As emphasized before, Spβ N q is much larger than the entropy of the gases, in which case the formula reduces to Spρ L q”
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“This is signaling that the size of the Hilbert space of CFT states H K that we construct is”
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“In the semiclassical picture, this corresponds to the fact that the heavy shell lives in the closed universe and thus it does not contribute to the ADM mass.”
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“When the entanglement is large, one gets a more-or-less conventional encoding of the closed universe in the CFT; when the entanglement is small, the conventional encoding breaks down, but the properties of the closed universe are still reflected in CFT data.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > 1 Introduction
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“Big bang/big crunch closed universes can be realized in AdS/CFT, even though they lack asymptotically AdS boundaries.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > Abstract
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“This conventional EFT is encoded in CFT data, and it can be probed by computing coarsegrained observables.”
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“The entropy obtained from this computation is interpreted as the average of the entropy of microscopic states, Spρq [69].”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > 1.2 Comments on perspectives
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- Not checked yetcites [69] R. Bousso and E. Wildenhain, Gravity/ensemble duality, Phys. Rev. D 102 (2020) 066005 [arXiv:2006.16289] [INSPIRE]. source
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“In the special case in which the bulk EFT is highly entangled between the closed universe and the AdS spacetimes in [6], an effectively isometric map between the closed universe EFT Hilbert space and the CFT Hilbert space emerges for a set of semiclassical states as discussed in Section 2.5.”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“Each state in this basis is dual to some simple bulk state of matter in two copies of pure AdS spacetime.”
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“However, there isn't an obvious discrepancy for an EFT of quantum gravity, even at the semiclassical level.”
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“More generally, any particle that couples to the electromagnetic field is going to have its position rendered effectively classical due to scattering with the background radiation.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [100] E. Joos and H.D. Zeh, The emergence of classical properties through interaction with the environment, Z. Phys. B 59 (1985) 223 [INSPIRE]. source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [101] W.H. Zurek, Pointer Basis of Quantum Apparatus: Into What Mixture Does the Wave Packet Collapse?, Phys. Rev. D 24 (1981) 1516 [INSPIRE]. source
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“Similarly, in our model, it is natural to say that the closed universe is in the entanglement wedge of the CFTs.”
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“They share many features.”
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“As discussed in Section 5, one can in principle carry out simple CFT experiments to measure certain matrix elements which are directly encoding properties of the closed universe.”
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“Our discussion in the previous section shows that the holographic encoding W into the LR CFT Hilbert spaces is rather conventional in this situation, sharing several features with the holographic encoding of the black hole interior.”
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“When the entanglement is small or zero, one can still extract the properties of the closed universe from CFT data via other methods as discussed in Sections 4 and 5.”
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“In particular, there is a large class of CFT questions for which the answer is parsimoniously given in terms of conventional gravitational effective field theory on a large closed universe.”
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“This regime can only be reached if the universe is of sub-AdS size, but still weakly curved.”
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“Taking this into account, we now argue that the rules used in [6] and extended to generic settings by [52] are naturally compatible with an observer interpretation in a standard way, even though [6] did not use the language of observers.”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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- Not matchedcites [52] D. Harlow, M. Usatyuk and Y. Zhao, Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe, arXiv:2501.02359 [INSPIRE].
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“Finally, we show that the conventional EFT in the closed universe, without any projection, can be recovered as a maximally ignorant description of the final state.”
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“As part of the construction reviewed in Section 2, the tensor network model provides direct evidence for the existence of the closed universe.”
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“Thus, there is this alternative dual description to |Ψ LR y in terms of two entangled AdS gases in this particular state, as shown in Figure 9.”
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“If we first average over the heavy operators, then the average state has a simple interpretation in terms of quantum field theory on the closed universe.”
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“However, in the black hole setup there is no analog of the case where the entanglement with both AdS l and AdS r is small, because the naive bulk entanglement between the interior and Hawking radiation always stays large.”
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“Taken together, these results amount to a clean bill of health for baby universes born of AdS/CFT.”
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“This setup-a thermal gas with weak interactions-is a classic dynamical system which exhibits decoherence in the position basis for heavier “probe” particles.”
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“There is literally a large structure directly related to the CFT state which is interpretable as the space of the closed universe, see Figures 1 and 3.”
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“Within this regime, the two parameters mℓ and Eℓ individually determine the coarse-grained entropies of the closed universe and the AdS spaces, respectively.”
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“In particular, we advocate for an interpretation in which the one-dimensional Hilbert space is indicative of the fact that the closed universe is indistinguishable from the outside, e.g. from the perspective of the CFT.”
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“We argue that, yes, each element of a suitable ensemble is associated with a closed universe.”
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“An important difference is that in semiclassical gravity, wormholes swapping closed universes can be important.”
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“In the limit of no bulk entanglement, the holographic encoding breaks down.”
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“The entropy of the bulk state of Hawking radiation in rQFTs is interpreted as the entropy of a coarse-grained or averaged microscopic state, Spρq.”
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“The observer-clone setup is at best a “frozen” simulation of what is naturally occurring inside the closed universe.”
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“This conventional EFT is encoded in CFT data, and it can be probed by computing coarsegrained observables.”
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“As pointed out in [6], this signals a clear limitation of the conventional holographic encoding of the closed universe as the map W breaks down.”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“In this sense, the setup of [6] and discussed here is equivalent to considering the setup of [52] after the cloning procedure has been carried out.”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“With enough bulk entanglement, the bulk Hilbert space of a closed universe can be holographically encoded in the CFT.”
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“close to this threshold, the entanglement to the universe can be made parametrically large in N , since at the transition point Splrq “ OpN 18{17 q.”
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“Just as in the black hole case, the entropy of the bulk state in rQFTs turns out to be the entropy of a coarse-grained state.”
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“we argue that the physical interpretation of [52] is already implicit in [6] and, indeed, in the structure of EFT more generally.”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“We advocate that the CFT nevertheless continues to determine the physical properties of the closed universe in this regime, showing how to interpret this relationship in terms of a final state projection in the closed universe.”
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“Here we address recent claims made in [60] (referred to in this subsection as EG) and show that their argument against semiclassicality fails.”
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- Not matchedcites [60] N. Engelhardt and E. Gesteau, Further Evidence Against a Semiclassical Baby Universe in AdS/CFT, arXiv:2504.14586 [INSPIRE].
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“Similarly, the entropy computed using rEFTs can be interpreted as a microscopic entropy but averaged over microstates.”
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“In the effectively isometric regime (blue), the map acts as an approximate isometry for a large collection of bulk states.”
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“Modulo this proviso, we thus expect the internal dynamics of the closed universe to exhibit decoherence in a standard fashion.”
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“If the entanglement with AdS l is large and the entanglement with AdS r is small, the situation is analogous to the black hole near the endpoint of evaporation.”
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“Moreover, the particular thermal entangled construction we employ has been shown to accurately capture thermal physics [63].”
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- Not matchedcites [63] T.J. Sewell, C.D. White and B. Swingle, Thermal Multi-scale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz for Variational Gibbs State Preparation, arXiv:2210.16419 [INSPIRE].
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“The oft-cited one-dimensional nature of the closed universe Hilbert space represents the limitation of the external (CFT) Hilbert space to access the quantum information in the closed universe, similar to the limitations imposed on observers outside a perfectly isolated quantum lab.”
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“Once the exact coefficients (given by light-light-heavy OPE coefficients) defining the state |Ψ LR y in this low-energy basis are known, the alternative description can be built simply using the HKLL dictionary and does not manifestly involve a closed universe.”
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“In the regime where the entanglement with the closed universe is large, the encoding can be obtained via more-or-less conventional tools of entanglement wedge reconstruction, including islands and the like.”
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“The main difference between the two setups is in the nature of the bulk representation of entanglement between the two microscopic systems.”
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“In particular, if the entanglement with both AdS l and AdS r is large, this is similar to the interior encoding shortly after the Page time.”
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“However, this does not mean that individual instances W are likely to be isometric.”
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“for any suitably coarse-grained or averaged property, these erratic amplitudes behave as if they are orthogonal vectors in some larger Hilbert space.”
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“We will propose that the CFT uniquely determines the microscopic structure of the final state of the closed universe.”
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“The one-dimensionality of closed universes represents that from the external observer's Hilbert space (CFT in this case) every closed universe is indistinguishable.”
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“This shows how the gravitational path integral, and thus the bulk EFT, does not compute the exact microscopic value of the matrix elements, but only their characteristic size over the ensemble.”
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“In the thermodynamic sense, the final state of the closed universe is a highly entropic state.”
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“In this case, the result of the SWAP is controlled by the entanglement entropy between the two CFTs, which in the bulk is captured by the bulk entanglement entropy between fields in the left AdS spacetime and fields in the closed universe.”
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“The final state wavefunction happens to be very simply related to the microscopic properties of the heavy shell operator.”
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“Thus, the bulk description is compatible with the ETH ensemble.”
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“This permits describing conventional effects such as decoherence and local observers in this framework.”
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“The heavy shell in the bulk can be approximated by any of the typical draws of the ensemble.”
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“Here, this property arises as a consequence of the quantum chaotic features of the CFT.”
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“Some basic properties, such as causality, unitarity, and no-cloning, can be violated at the scale of the universe.”
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“As we have seen, as the entanglement between the closed universe and the AdS spacetimes grows, an approximately isometric encoding of the bulk Hilbert space into the dual CFT emerges, (approximately) recovering a more standard holographic dictionary.”
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“In short, we argue that the SWAP operator discussed in [60], which is supposed to give different results depending on whether or not a closed universe is present, is actually always just the boundary SWAP.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > 5.3 Reconstructing the closed universe from CFT data
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- Not matchedcites [60] N. Engelhardt and E. Gesteau, Further Evidence Against a Semiclassical Baby Universe in AdS/CFT, arXiv:2504.14586 [INSPIRE].
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“Global quantum mechanics, on the other hand, is affected by the final state projection, irrespective of the amount of entanglement to the AdS spaces.”
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“Both of the rules can be explicitly understood from the CFT doing different experiments with the ensemble of microscopic heavy operators, the difference being whether we correlate draws of the ETH ensemble of operators between different replicas or not.”
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“The initial state being highly entropic is only a consequence of the symmetry of the setup under time reflection.”
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“We have argued that this one-dimensionality simply represents the limitation of the external observer (CFT) to distinguish the quantum information in the closed universe, similar to the limitation of an external observer to describe an isolated quantum lab.”
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“Therefore, the SWAP operator defined in EG cannot detect whether a closed universe is present in the bulk QFT description.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > 3.2.2 Addressing the EG argument
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- Not matchedcites [60] N. Engelhardt and E. Gesteau, Further Evidence Against a Semiclassical Baby Universe in AdS/CFT, arXiv:2504.14586 [INSPIRE].
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“The [EFT] picture is recovered by performing a correlated average between different replicas for multiple-replica quantities.”
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“However, the former (5.3) is a self-consistent [QFT] description in many replicas, without any replica wormholes involved.”
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“Nevertheless, even in the limit of zero entanglement, the CFT knows about the closed universe in a more general sense.”
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“From the CFT perspective, the statistics is taken over an ensemble of heavy microscopic operators compatible with the heavy shell, whose light matrix elements behave erratically.”
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“The statistics of the results of experiments in the CFT can in turn be used to deduce properties of the closed universe.”
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“The expectation value xgs|O piq |gsy can be probed by a boundary CFT experiment using the following protocol.”
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“From the Hilbert space of the CFT, two microstates representing different states of the universe become indistinguishable, as they are exactly parallel quantum states.”
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“In particular, we have argued that the model presented in [52], which relies on the definition of an”
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- Not matchedcites [52] D. Harlow, M. Usatyuk and Y. Zhao, Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe, arXiv:2501.02359 [INSPIRE].
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“The holographic map is then a Heisenberg picture model of such a projection, where the final state has been suitably propagated to the time-symmetric slice of the universe using the Hamiltonian defined by the background, as shown in Figure 13.”
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“In this section, we will show that the conventional global EFT of the closed universe, without any final state projection, can still be described from the CFT if one chooses to implement an average over the microscopics of the final state.”
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“The specific state |O c y the map projects the closed universe onto was defined after (2.7) and it depends on the microscopics of the heavy CFT operator used to create the shell.”
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“From the point of view of the holographic map, the projection in this regime is the extreme non-isometric case discussed in Section 2.”
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“Well-known arguments [52,53,109,111] indicate that the Hilbert space of the closed universe is one-dimensional in this regime.”
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- Not matchedcites [52] D. Harlow, M. Usatyuk and Y. Zhao, Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe, arXiv:2501.02359 [INSPIRE].
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- Not checked yetcites [53] A.I. Abdalla, S. Antonini, L.V. Iliesiu and A. Levine, The gravitational path integral from an observer’s point of view, JHEP 05 (2025) 059 [arXiv:2501.02632] [INSPIRE]. source
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- Not matchedcites [109] J. McNamara and C. Vafa, Cobordism Classes and the Swampland, arXiv:1909.10355 [INSPIRE].
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- Not checked yetcites [111] D. Marolf and H. Maxfield, Transcending the ensemble: baby universes, spacetime wormholes, and the order and disorder of black hole information, JHEP 08 (2020) 044 [arXiv:2002.08950] [INSPIRE]. source
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“If we coarse-grain in the way the gravitational path integral does, we lose information about the specific final state.”
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“We remark that the statistical properties of this ensemble can be deduced directly from CFT experiments:”
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“The breakdown of semiclassicality advocated for in [60] follows only if the CFT inner product, which is not well-approximated by the bulk [QFT] in the regime of small entanglement, is the one relevant for the description of ordinary physics in the closed universe.”
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“we show that the presence of both initial and final state projections has an interesting implication for the arrow of time.”
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“However, as we noted above, the one-dimensionality of the closed universe Hilbert space, suitably defined, is a prediction of rEFTs.”
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“A state-dependent reconstruction of the [QFT] in the closed universe background is possible using this encoding.”
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“Taking this perspective, the final state projection modifies the global structure of the quantum mechanics in the closed universe, irrespective of whether there is entanglement with the exterior or not.”
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“The heavy operator O is expected to have erratic matrix elements between light states of the CFT.”
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- Not checked yetcites [84] A. Belin and J. de Boer, Random statistics of OPE coefficients and Euclidean wormholes, Class. Quant. Grav. 38 (2021) 164001 [arXiv:2006.05499] [INSPIRE]. source
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- Not checked yetcites [121] S. Collier, A. Maloney, H. Maxfield and I. Tsiares, Universal dynamics of heavy operators in CFT2, JHEP 07 (2020) 074 [arXiv:1912.00222] [INSPIRE]. source
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“The intrinsic closed universe-to-CFT dictionary suggested by (4.3) is thus: final state wavefunction Ø CFT light-light matrix elements of O Ψ I O”
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“An interesting fact is that this concrete proposal connects the quantum structure of singularities to the chaotic features of the CFT.”
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“If instead we perform a correlated average for all the copies, we can access the average value of non-linear quantities depending on the final state ρ.”
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“are reproduced by spacetime wormhole contributions to moments of the matrix elements of the shell operator [76].”
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- Not checked yetcites [76] M. Sasieta, Wormholes from heavy operator statistics in AdS/CFT, JHEP 03 (2023) 158 [arXiv:2211.11794] [INSPIRE]. source
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“When the entanglement entropy is sufficiently large, the situation is a rather conventional encoding, analogous to the situation for the black hole interior [68].”
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- Not checked yetcites [68] C. Akers et al., The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity, JHEP 06 (2024) 155 [arXiv:2207.06536] [INSPIRE]. source
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“The difference is that the bulk state of the quantum fields gets always projected into the fixed state |O c y in the universe, instead of traced over states in c.”
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“The situation with the closed universe is essentially the same, right down to the erratic/random nature of the states [6].”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“Because the causal wedge SWAP, when mapped to the CFT using the holographic map, is just the boundary SWAP, it also swaps the closed universes.”
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“Reflecting back on the analysis in this section, we argued that the causal wedge SWAP described by EG is simply the boundary SWAP and the result of such a SWAP test on the CFT state is unit purity.”
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“Now the same bulk QFT SWAP on the l bulk fields, which still maps to the L CFT SWAP, does not SWAP the closed universes, as shown in Figure 11 with L and R interchanged.”
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“We emphasize that the”
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“Still, restricting to sufficiently local subsystems, one expects to recover conventional quantum mechanics without any projection [104,116].”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [104] G.T. Horowitz and J.M. Maldacena, The black hole final state, JHEP 02 (2004) 008 [hep-th/0310281] [INSPIRE]. source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [116] S. Lloyd and J. Preskill, Unitarity of black hole evaporation in final-state projection models, JHEP 08 (2014) 126 [arXiv:1308.4209] [INSPIRE]. source
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“By post-selecting specific measurement outcomes that single out a consistent microstate and conveying this information to the L CFT, one can select a corresponding subset of the SWAP test outcomes for which the two states in the SWAP test happened to agree, and that subset of the data will give an estimate of unit purity.”
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“In the regime in which the bulk entanglement is largest between the closed universe and the r bulk fields, the closed universe is in the entanglement wedge of the r bulk fields (and the R CFT) and not the L CFT.”
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“the Schrodinger's cat like ground state, being a consequence of discrete symmetry breaking, should be stable to any small perturbation of H SC that respects the symmetry.”
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“From the bulk point of view, this can be interpreted as saying that conventional EFT, ignoring final state projections at terminal spacelike singularities, is equivalent to the maximally ignorant description of the final state.”
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“This leads to natural closed universe tensor network representations of the matrix elements (4.3), as shown in Figure 14.”
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“We thus obtain the averaged two-point function Gpαq purely from the statistics of CFT experiments.”
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“We argued that the difference, as signaled by the holographic encoding, is that there is a final state projection implemented in the universe.”
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“It is worth emphasizing at this point that the final state projection is compatible with the reconstruction of operators in the closed universe via the non-isometric encoding when sufficient entanglement with exterior regions is present.”
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“The Gaussian integral over microscopic matrix elements O I can be reinterpreted in the language of a Hilbert space of bosonic excitations.”
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“Notice that by increasing α, we can probe regions further from the shell, all the way to the center of the closed universe in the limit α Ñ 8.”
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“The specific structure of these matrix elements can be viewed as a generalized version of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) [84,120,121].”
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- Not checked yetcites [84] A. Belin and J. de Boer, Random statistics of OPE coefficients and Euclidean wormholes, Class. Quant. Grav. 38 (2021) 164001 [arXiv:2006.05499] [INSPIRE]. source
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [120] M. Srednicki, Chaos and Quantum Thermalization, Phys. Rev. E 50 (1994) 888 [cond-mat/9403051] [INSPIRE]. source
- Not checked yetcites [121] S. Collier, A. Maloney, H. Maxfield and I. Tsiares, Universal dynamics of heavy operators in CFT2, JHEP 07 (2020) 074 [arXiv:1912.00222] [INSPIRE]. source
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“From the external observer (the CFT) the conclusion would still be the same: in the regime of no entanglement, all of the universes are indistinguishable and thus the external Hilbert space describing them is one-dimensional.”
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“We advocated this is not the case, and interpreted instead the large fluctuations (at low entanglement) in the [QFT] approximation of the CFT inner product as a breakdown of the ordinary holographic encoding of the closed universe.”
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“This is an operator that effectively SWAPs the state of the particle in AdS but not the state of the particle in the closed universe.”
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“For example, considering the statistical properties of the erratic amplitudes in the CFT, one would eventually find that they have a parsimonious description in terms of correlators of bulk fields in a semiclassical closed universe as discussed in Section 5.3.”
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“Now, it is not straightforward to extend this to a SWAP of the entire closed universe because the typical matrix elements of the total SWAP are of the same size as the corrections to the overlap.”
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“In fact, the postselection in the non-isometric map is essentially equivalent to the final state projection discussed here.”
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“This indicates that correlation functions with multiple Os inserted will decompose into two decoherent branches, one in which the arrow of time is to the future and one in which it is to the past.”
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“In this regime, the information of the universe is just encoded in the matrix element O I where we are using the shorthand notation for the indices I”
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“To summarize, semiclassical physics (i.e.[QFT]) is encoded in the boundary theory in a rather unconventional way, namely in the statistics of boundary data instead of an approximately isometric bulk-to-boundary map between Hilbert spaces.”
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“Even if |O c y is the natural final state for the closed universe defined throughout this paper, this state is by no means the unique final state we could have defined for the same classical background.”
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“The two-point function computed with the gravitational path integral clearly contains information about the bulk geometry of the closed universe.”
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“We would like to point out that one advantage of the model introduced in [6] and considered here is that one can study questions analogous to the experience of interior observers in a black hole without having to deal with regions of large curvature where semiclassical physics would be expected to break down.”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“If we interpret the remaining uncontracted layers of the bra and ket MERA networks as the two AdS balls forming the closed universe, then we see they are glued at their boundary by a dense operator insertion.”
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“Thus, we see that a very simple tensor network model of the CFT ground state and the operator shell insertion immediately produces a spatial geometry for the closed universe that qualitatively matches the semiclassical gravitational picture.”
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“This result shows how geometric features of the closed universe can affect the encoding of the states in the CFT by means of the entanglement with the external gases.”
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“As we will see in Section 5, the final state can be interpreted as a specific α-state in the baby universe literature[111][112][113][114][115].”
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- Not checked yetcites [111] D. Marolf and H. Maxfield, Transcending the ensemble: baby universes, spacetime wormholes, and the order and disorder of black hole information, JHEP 08 (2020) 044 [arXiv:2002.08950] [INSPIRE]. source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [112] S.R. Coleman, Black holes as red herrings: Topological fluctuations and the loss of quantum coherence, Nucl. Phys. B 307 (1988) 867 [INSPIRE]. source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [113] S.B. Giddings and A. Strominger, Loss of incoherence and determination of coupling constants in quantum gravity, Nucl. Phys. B 307 (1988) 854 [INSPIRE]. source
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“After the final state projection, the bulk state of the external AdS regions is pure.”
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“This way it follows from rEFT proj s that the SWAP test of[60] always gives unit result in the closed universe description.”
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- Not matchedcites [60] N. Engelhardt and E. Gesteau, Further Evidence Against a Semiclassical Baby Universe in AdS/CFT, arXiv:2504.14586 [INSPIRE].
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“This kind of contribution is essential to reproduce higher-point correlators[123] (see e.g.[124,125] for such corrections in the CFT data of two-dimensional CFTs reproduced by gravity).”
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- Not checked yetcites [123] A. Belin, J. de Boer and D. Liska, Non-Gaussianities in the statistical distribution of heavy OPE coefficients and wormholes, JHEP 06 (2022) 116 [arXiv:2110.14649] [INSPIRE]. source
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- Not checked yetcites [124] J. de Boer, D. Liska and B. Post, Multiboundary wormholes and OPE statistics, JHEP 10 (2024) 207 [arXiv:2405.13111] [INSPIRE]. source
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- Not checked yetcites [125] D.N. Page, Average entropy of a subsystem, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71 (1993) 1291 [gr-qc/9305007] [INSPIRE]. source
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“The matter that defines the background becomes so close to the asymptotic region that we can use this limit to also define the wavefunction at finite a, at the same level.”
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“The momentum constraint imposes the invariance of Ψph ij , ϕ I q under diffeomorphisms on Σ.”
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“In this case, the CFT state dual to the bulk setup is simply given by a slight modification (due to the insertion of the matter particle) of the PETS (2.8).”
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“That said, one should keep in mind that in higher dimensions it seems we are not allowed to have Spρ r q Á Spβ N q, and thus keeping both terms above is in a sense futile.”
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“In closed universes without past/future singularities, such as those which eternally inflate, this projection can be specified at the asymptotic past/future boundaries.”
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“We remark this is not a typical cosmological spacetime with evolution driven by some homogeneous (and possibly isotropic) perfect fluid.”
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“Notice, however, that if we have e.g. S r”
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“This model satisfies a much stronger effective-isometricity property, due to the strong measure concentration of Gaussian random states [68,98].”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > 2.5.2 Effectively isometric regime
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- Partly supportedcites [68] C. Akers et al., The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity, JHEP 06 (2024) 155 [arXiv:2207.06536] [INSPIRE]. sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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- Partly supportedcites [98] A. Kar, Non-isometric quantum error correction in gravity, JHEP 02 (2023) 195 [arXiv:2210.13476] [INSPIRE]. sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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“This is much weaker than having a fixed isometry approximating the holographic map for any state[68,95,97].”
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- Supportedcites [68] C. Akers et al., The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity, JHEP 06 (2024) 155 [arXiv:2207.06536] [INSPIRE]. source
Section 3, “Measure concentration and sub-exponential states,” says the non-isometric holographic map approximately preserves overlaps for states of sub-exponential circuit complexity. Section 2, “A model of the interior,” explains that when the effective-description space is larger, some states are necessarily annihilated by the map. This supports the distinction between that limited guarantee and a fixed isometry approximating the map for every state. Page numbers are not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.90)
- Supportedcites [95] S. Antonini et al., Non-isometry, state dependence and holography, JHEP 02 (2025) 150 [arXiv:2411.07296] [INSPIRE]. source
Section 3.2.2 distinguishes approximate preservation of overlaps between semiclassical states from an approximate isometry on the entire bulk Hilbert space. It says a strongly non-isometric map cannot approximately encode all states because states in its kernel violate the isometry condition, even if semiclassical-state overlaps are approximately preserved. (LLM, conf=0.90)
- Supportedcites [97] C. Akers and G. Penington, Quantum minimal surfaces from quantum error correction, SciPost Phys. 12 (2022) 157 [arXiv:2109.14618] [INSPIRE]. source
Section 5.1 says the bulk-to-boundary map can be approximately isometric when restricted to a small subspace, while state-specific reconstruction addresses the entire bulk Hilbert space. It therefore supports the distinction between a state-specific result and one fixed isometry that works for any state. Page numbers are not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“Tracing out the clone, we get a state for Ob which is diagonal in the position (pointer) basis.The clone can be seen in this way as a tool to guarantee this.”
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“Moreover, on top of the classical geometry on the reflection-symmetric slice, there is a state of matter fields |ψ clr y in the rQFTs description, which is generally entangled between the universe and the AdS regions.”
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“Under Lorentzian evolution, the spacetime includes the two AdS regions, while c evolves into a big bang/big crunch cosmological spacetime, 11 as shown on the right of Figure 1.”
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“The Euclidean manifold is connected, which means that it generally prepares an entangled state of the bulk matter fields between the closed universe and the AdS regions.”
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“Both gravitational contributions produce G ij G ji “ δ ij `xψ lb |ψ lb y xψ 1 cr |ψ 1 cr y Z 0 e ´mi L i ˘2 `Trpρ 2 l qTrpρ 2 r qZ 2 0 e ´mi L i ´mj L j ,(3.4)”
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“Spcq “ $ ' & ' % pmℓq 2 N 50{17 if OpN 2 {λ 1{2 q ! mℓ ! OpN 2 q , mℓ N 16{17 if OpN 2 q ! mℓ ,(2.11)”
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“The unnormalized trace norm is parametrically small when Splrq´3SpMq “ 1, or equivalently when 4Splrq ´3Spcq “ 1.Thus the AdS entropy must exceed three-quarters of the entropy of the closed universe, including the entangled degrees of freedom, by a parametrically large margin.”
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“Also, in this case, the bulk entanglement becomes mostly bipartite between each AdS and each side of the universe, reflecting the fact that |ψ clr y « |ψ lb y |ψ 1 cr y.”
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“The mean of this distribution is λ “ 1 and the variance is λ 2 ´1 “ r.”
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“We leave the details to the Appendix, but the outcome is that (2.7) is essentially unmodified, provided we use an appropriate bulk state of the closed universe |ψ clr y (which is no longer a product state between both sides of the shell).”
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“On average, the distance to isometry is determined by the spread of the eigenvalues of W : W ,”
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“Dividing by the normalization, the connected contribution reduces to |G ij ´Gij | 2 G ii G jj “ Trpρ 2 l qTrpρ 2 r q pTrρ l q 2 pTrρ r q 2 “ e ´S2 pρ lr q ,(3.5)”
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“This provides a concrete situation where different insertions generate different states in M.”
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“For the tensor network model of Figure 7 the transition happens when the entropy of the universe becomes exponential in the entropy of the AdS gases, Splrq À log Spcq.In this regime the family of polypSpMqq-complex states in M is mapped non-isometrically with Op1q probability.”
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“The entropy (2.10) upper bounds the allowable entanglement between c and lr.This is true up to”
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“energies Eℓ À OpN 20{17 q, where the gas of particles ceases to be the dominant microcanonical phase [91].”
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- Not checked yetcites [91] G.T. Horowitz, Comments on black holes in string theory, Class. Quant. Grav. 17 (2000) 1107 [hep-th/9910082] [INSPIRE]. source
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“If we now prepare many copies of this state and repeatedly measure the ancilla in the σ x and σ y bases, then we can determine the matrix element via”
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“Applying the same logic to our setup in the regime of zero entanglement, i.e. allowing pure initial and final states of the closed universe, one does not recover conventional quantum mechanics: the decoherence functional for pure initial and final states is rank 1, and thus the standard quantum-mechanical measurement probabilities are not recovered, see e.g.[139].”
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“Using a resolvent calculation, this allows us to access”
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“Using these rules, the by now conventional gravitational resolvent calculation yields”
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“We showed that the CFT was able to yield such results in Section 5.”
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“The spacing between insertions decreases by a factor of 2 after each contraction of the current outer layer, so after b layers are contracted, the insertions are adjacent to each other.”
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“All the αI and α: I commute, and thus we can introduce simultaneous eigenstates for all of them (α-states):”
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“Thus r G has rank 1 for any Ω ě 1 and this implies that the dimension of the”
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“We can also check that the system-clock Hamiltonian is invariant under time reversal,”
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“If we average independently on each replica, this is equivalent to applying the maximally depolarizing channel in the replicated Hilbert space, which yields”
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“The state is transformed into itself by time-reversal, but the terms in the superposition that ac-complish this are macroscopically distinct.”
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“The success probability is”
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“Since, as a state of two CFTs, we are dealing with a pure state, the SWAP expectation value is always one, a fact that may be interpreted from the bulk perspective as saying that both the exterior AdS regions and the closed universe are swapped.”
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“First, the size of the closed universe is controlled by the mass of the thin shell (in AdS units), and when we make this parameter large we get a very large closed universe.”
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“As a simple example, if the encoding maps are all random, then these states can have exponentially small overlaps, xiα|jβy”
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“However, it does contain a past and future curvature singularity, with its time-symmetric evolution driven by the dust shell's trajectory.”
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“In the circular complex Gaussian ETH ensemble, the phases θ i defined after equation (5.13) are uniformly distributed.”
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“Starting from layer a, the UV layer, the operator shell reaches layer a ´b before the process is halted.This corresponds to a scale in lattice units of 2 a´b”
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“This closed universe is supported by the two shells, it has a geometric bottleneck (i.e., a minimal S d´1 between the shells) and upon evolution the shells collapse to form a black hole.”
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“Spρ L q”
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“Thus, in this limit, we recover lim mℓÑ8 Ψph ij , ϕ I , Oq ren 9 O I , (C.5) which is essentially (4.6) from another perspective.”
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“e ´S2 pχq”
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“The number of layers that can be contracted is still b, so the final length scale of the shell is 2 a´b”
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“This is also the result one gets when no bottleneck is present.”
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“Now the mass of the shell is mℓ”
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“In more detail, we get the emergence of classical trajectories, indicating decoherence to a pointer basis of wavepackets with well-localized position and momentum.”
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“There are three candidates: one empty surface that cuts the entanglement between the left AdS and the cosmology, another empty surface that cuts between the closed universe and the right AdS, and the minimal surface that provides the bottleneck.”
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“The time-reflection symmetric slice has two hyperbolic balls that evolve into AdS l and AdS r , together with a disconnected closed universe.”
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“This is because in the black hole phase Spβ N q”
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“The matter states we are creating are to the left of the bottleneck.”
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“When the universe is very large, the constraints are solved by a wavefunctional of WKB form Ψ”
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“In the last definition, we have used that this CFT path integral computes the light matrix elements of the microscopic shell operator O, up to proportionality factors arising from the conformal frame.”
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“Using the AdS/CFT mass-dimension relation, the total mass of the shell is mℓ”
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“In the evaporating black hole case, the entanglement is geometrical, i.e. it is given (at leading order) by the area of the boundary of the island.”
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“The encoding map W is almost equivalent to the one recently discussed in [52].”
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- Not matchedcites [52] D. Harlow, M. Usatyuk and Y. Zhao, Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe, arXiv:2501.02359 [INSPIRE].
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“This is possible because the CFT state |Ψ LR y is low-energy and can be expanded in a basis built by acting with left and right light primaries on the vacuum of the two CFTs.”
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“The universe will be weakly curved and under semiclassical control if its characteristic radius is larger than the string length, R ˚“ ℓ s .”
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“this is true as long as mℓ “ O `N 2 {λ 1{2 ˘.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The AdS part of the metric on the closed universe is determined by (2.1) and (2.2), neglecting the backreaction of other matter fields except for the shell.
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“This creates a puzzle because it seems to indicate that in the Description 2, without the closed universe, the AdS spaces are in a pure state, while in the description with the closed universe, the AdS spaces are in a mixed state if we follow the rQFTs interpretation above.”
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“Above the threshold, the dominant phase is a ten-dimensional black hole localized in the S 5 .In this regime, the universe becomes geometrically connected to the AdS spaces as part of the black hole interior (ii).”
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“When the entanglement is large, one gets a more-or-less conventional encoding of the closed universe in the CFT; when the entanglement is small, the conventional encoding breaks down, but the properties of the closed universe are still reflected in CFT data.”
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“Both Description 1 and Description 2 are indistinguishable from the CFT, as they correspond to the same CFT state |Ψ LR y.”
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“We believe this distinction to be irrelevant for our holographic discussion; thus, the two setups can be considered very similar.”
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“This model makes many features of the closed universe and its relation to the CFT manifest, and it suggests a framework for an intrinsic description of the closed universe that connects to CFT data.”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“In [61] a subset of us pointed out that there exists an alternative semiclassical description of the CFT state of interest.The idea is to absorb the universe into the state of the matter fields in the two AdS spaces, which according to (2.7) is”
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- Not checked yetcites [61] S. Antonini and P. Rath, Do holographic CFT states have unique semiclassical bulk duals?, Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 34 (2025) 2544025 [arXiv:2408.02720] [INSPIRE]. source
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“For example, rQFTs has a simple notion of entanglement with a closed universe, but the bulk state in this perspective has nothing directly to do with any CFT state -in particular, it lacks the erratic features that should be present in the microscopic state.”
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“In the regime in which the bulk entanglement between closed universe and AdS spacetimes is large, yes.”
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“We emphasize that the closed universe can be large and can be highly entangled with other disconnected spacetime regions, so there is no a priori reason to doubt that a semiclassical description should work well.”
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“In our construction, the clone Ob 1 also gravitates, and it is holographically encoded in the CFT.Therefore, overlaps and similar objects in the Hilbert space of Ob 1 can be computed using the standard rules of the gravitational path integral.”
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“However, we argue in detail below that this test does not imply anything about physics in the closed universe, hence it does not provide evidence against semiclassicality of physics in the closed universe.”
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- Not matchedcites [60] N. Engelhardt and E. Gesteau, Further Evidence Against a Semiclassical Baby Universe in AdS/CFT, arXiv:2504.14586 [INSPIRE].
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“This perspective acknowledges that the bulk states considered in rQFTs cannot be taken seriously as microscopic states, at least without invoking some holographic map.”
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“The CFT still describes the properties of the closed universe, which is all an external party could hope to know about the closed universe.”
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“In particular, as shown in [6], the universe belongs to the entanglement wedge of the CFTs, and it can be understood as an entanglement island.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > 3 Aspects of the holographic encoding
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“For multi-replica observables, we need a more complicated procedure involving either wormhole contributions (to compute statistical moments) or a projection (to model individual microstates).”
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“When the closed universe is entangled via an “observer” Ob with an external “clone” Ob 1 , the Hilbert space that describes it is that of the clone, and its dimension is e S Ob for S Ob the entanglement entropy between the observer and the clone.”
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“The green region in Figure 6 corresponds to a parameter regime in which the holographic encoding is expected to be approximately isometric.This can only be the case if there is more entropy in the AdS spaces lr than in the rest of the universe M.”
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“As the energy is increased above Eℓ Á OpN 2 q, the black hole becomes large, of positive specific heat (iii).”
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“For us and [6], the clones are just AdS gas degrees of freedom, holographically encoded in the CFTs.They thus have a very clear physical existence, and we could identify the fundamental description with the CFT.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > 3.1.1 Comments on observers, pointer variables, and all that
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“Under some mild assumptions about the holographic map, the non-isometric region can be divided into “effectively isometric” and “highly non-isometric”, as explained in [68].”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > 2.5.2 Effectively isometric regime
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- Not checked yetcites [68] C. Akers et al., The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity, JHEP 06 (2024) 155 [arXiv:2207.06536] [INSPIRE]. source
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“Since, as we explained above, the lr gases are the clones Ob 1 in our model, (3.5) translates to the result of [52].”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > 3.1 Entanglement and observers in closed universes
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- Not matchedcites [52] D. Harlow, M. Usatyuk and Y. Zhao, Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe, arXiv:2501.02359 [INSPIRE].
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“In the red region, the map is highly non-isometric, and even “simple” states on the closed universe are mapped non-isometrically to the CFT.Many such states that look perfectly distinguishable in M look almost parallel in the CFT, and thus become indistinguishable in the CFT.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > 2.5.3 Highly non-isometric regime
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“Throughout, we argue that gravitational EFT is never breaking down as long as the closed universe remains large; rather, the kinds of CFT questions that the bulk EFT answers change with entanglement.”
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“These experiments typically involve some amount of statistics, but this does not imply that the closed universe is only a property of the average.”
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“In any case, the most extreme regime of non-isometricity is always reached when there is no bulk entanglement at all with the closed universe.In this case, all of the states of the closed universe are mapped to the same CFT state.”
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“We emphasize that suitable notions of averaging or coarse-graining are crucial to the interpretation of both calculations and that neither perspective really purports to give access to the microscopic state.”
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“As long as the entanglement to the closed universe is large, the semiclassical description reliably captures properties of the CFT states, and thus it can be used to approximate the dual to individual microstates.”
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“This Hilbert space is not the one relevant for the description of the experience of a gravitating observer, who can (and should!) still experience rich physics.”
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“In this case, the CFT inner product approximately reproduces the inner product relevant to describing the semiclassical physics of the observer and the CFT can be used to simulate such an observer.”
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“In our setup, the stability of the gas of particles in AdS implies that the universe cannot be too large, OpN 2 {λ 1{2 q !mℓ À OpN 2 q, where the lower bound guarantees that the universe is semiclassical.”
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“The ETH ansatz is also the reason to select a random tensor |O c y in the tensor network of Figure 2; with this choice, the model reproduces (2.9) and other gravitational properties [6].”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“we think of the dust particles that form the shell as coming from massive KK supergravity modes on the S 5 .”
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“As we discuss below, the test boils down to a low-energy boundary swap test, and the result is that the Hilbert space of the closed universe, as seen from the boundary theory, is one-dimensional.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > 1 Introduction
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- Not matchedcites [60] N. Engelhardt and E. Gesteau, Further Evidence Against a Semiclassical Baby Universe in AdS/CFT, arXiv:2504.14586 [INSPIRE].
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“This trace-norm criterion is stronger than requiring small operator-norm deviation from isometry.”
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“A key point is that the SWAP operator discussed in EG, when properly defined in the CFT, is just the boundary SWAP operator (in a low energy subspace) and, accordingly, it will also swap the closed universes.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > 3.2 On SWAP tests
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- Not matchedcites [60] N. Engelhardt and E. Gesteau, Further Evidence Against a Semiclassical Baby Universe in AdS/CFT, arXiv:2504.14586 [INSPIRE].
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“This is a well-defined physical theory, at least in perturbation theory, with a large Hilbert space even when defined on a compact space.”
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“If the entanglement is small, we cannot a priori conclude that the semiclassical description of the closed universe breaks down, only that it is not a correct picture for the CFT microstates.”
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“From the bulk EFT point of view, AdS l plays the role of Hawking radiation in the Hawking state, the closed universe plays the role of the island [64][65][66][67][68] for Hawking radiation, and AdS r accounts for the remaining black hole microstates.”
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- Not checked yetcites [64] G. Penington, Entanglement Wedge Reconstruction and the Information Paradox, JHEP 09 (2020) 002 [arXiv:1905.08255] [INSPIRE]. source
- Not checked yetcites [65] A. Almheiri, N. Engelhardt, D. Marolf and H. Maxfield, The entropy of bulk quantum fields and the entanglement wedge of an evaporating black hole, JHEP 12 (2019) 063 [arXiv:1905.08762] [INSPIRE]. source
- Not checked yetcites [66] G. Penington, S.H. Shenker, D. Stanford and Z. Yang, Replica wormholes and the black hole interior, JHEP 03 (2022) 205 [arXiv:1911.11977] [INSPIRE]. source
- Not checked yetcites [67] A. Almheiri et al., Replica Wormholes and the Entropy of Hawking Radiation, JHEP 05 (2020) 013 [arXiv:1911.12333] [INSPIRE]. source
- Not checked yetcites [68] C. Akers et al., The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity, JHEP 06 (2024) 155 [arXiv:2207.06536] [INSPIRE]. source
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“In [6], the state |O c y was drawn from a Gaussian random distribution; with this choice, this very simple random tensor network model captures many of the properties of the gravitational setup.”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“Although this particular fact relies on the measure concentration of the model, the weaker form of effective isometricity (2.20), corresponding to the average case scenario, will much more generally be true, e.g., if the state |O c y is drawn randomly from a quantum state 2-design.”
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“Based on [6], we expect these states and operations to look random from the CFT perspective, but from the closed universe perspective, they can be ordered structures.”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“We verified numerically (1) that the ground state of H SC has the claimed cat state form, (2) that there is a small gap between the ground state and the first excited and a larger gap to the rest of the spectrum, and (3) that the ground state is primarily supported on the span of |Ψ ˘y.”
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“These matrix elements are microscopic, and in AdS/CFT they can be computed by suitable Euclidean CFT path integrals, as presented in Figure 12.”
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“We have advocated that the physical definition of the observer, as a subsystem which decoheres the wavefunction in a basis of physical pointer states, was implicit in [6].”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“For a quantum system in eternal isolation, the same one-dimensionality trivially follows if one tries to describe the system from an external Hilbert space.”
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“Note that rEFTs is still only an effective description and not a UV-complete description of quantum gravity, although it includes non-perturbative effects captured by the gravitational path integral.”
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“Ensemble averaging actually does play a role; as we emphasize, this need not correspond to ensembles of theories as ensembles of heavy operators are sufficient for many purposes.”
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“However, the tensor network model suggests that the closed universe is well described by a smooth geometry everywhere away from the shell and the erratic behaviour comes precisely from the shell operator.”
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“In the regime of large entanglement, the CFT can therefore probe the local semiclassical physics in the closed universe, which is preserved by the final state projection just like it is preserved by the projection arising in the non-isometric map, as it was discussed in [68] for evaporating black holes after the Page time.”
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- Not checked yetcites [68] C. Akers et al., The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity, JHEP 06 (2024) 155 [arXiv:2207.06536] [INSPIRE]. source
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“The picture emerging from this discussion is that semiclassical physics in the closed universe (i.e.[QFT]) can be used to answer specific questions in the CFT, namely coarse-grained questions”
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“This would imply a one-dimensional Hilbert space for the closed universe, inconsistent with rQFTs.”
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“as argued in Sec.3.1, the mathematical rules of [52] are explicit in [6] (where they were derived from the rules of AdS/CFT) and the physical content was implicit as well.”
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- Not matchedcites [52] D. Harlow, M. Usatyuk and Y. Zhao, Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe, arXiv:2501.02359 [INSPIRE].
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“rather, we are claiming that it is clear that the semiclassicality of the closed universe must be compatible with it having, from the CFT perspective, a one-dimensional Hilbert space.”
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“Curvatures away from the past and future singularities are small and there is no good reason to believe semiclassical physics should break down in such a situation.”
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“In both models, the closed universe is described within the Hilbert space of the clone, and its dimension is set by the entanglement between the observer and the clone.”
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“In the absence of a concrete generalization of AdS/CFT, we are then led to the option of gauge equivalence, i.e., both descriptions are dual to the same CFT state.”
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“This relationship between the closed universe and the entanglement wedge of various CFTs was already discussed in [6].”
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“The two independent parameters of the setup correspond to the volume of the closed universe and its entanglement with the external AdS regions.”
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“Furthermore, the light states belong to the low-energy code subspace, so we can replace them by their bulk representation using the bulk-to-boundary map V , and write the light-light thin shell matrix element as O I”
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“Put differently, all the possible resolutions listed in AR to the puzzle raised there are back on the table.”
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“The postselection implemented by the holographic map from the bulk QFT to the two CFTs is similar to the one considered in [68] for an evaporating black hole, and can also be interpreted in terms of a final state projection [104] and leads to the rEFT proj s perspective as discussed in Section 4.”
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- Not checked yetcites [68] C. Akers et al., The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity, JHEP 06 (2024) 155 [arXiv:2207.06536] [INSPIRE]. source
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [104] G.T. Horowitz and J.M. Maldacena, The black hole final state, JHEP 02 (2004) 008 [hep-th/0310281] [INSPIRE]. source
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“Moreover, this is presumably consistent with the experience of an observer in the closed universe being well described by rQFTs even though it gives the wrong value for the SWAP.”
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“In Description 1, this is obtained by swapping the closed universes together with the state of bulk fields in the AdS spacetimes; in Description 2, simply by swapping the state of bulk fields in the AdS spacetimes, which is pure in the first place.”
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“The average state (5.2), when inserted as a final state, is equivalent to having no projection at the singularity, and thus it recovers the conventional EFT description in the closed universe.”
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“To sum up, the two rules are different ways to coarse-grain the fact that there is a final state.Both of them coincide in single-replica quantities depending on ρ.”
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“The [QFT] description can be seen as arising as a maximally ignorant description of the details of the final state projection, or equivalently, after averaging over final states.”
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“An interesting feature of this proposal is that the quantum chaotic properties of the CFT make the final state quasi-random and thus locally thermalized.”
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“Thus, a given universe, with a given semiclassical singularity, is defined by a global final state.”
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“We proposed that the CFT determines the precise final state and provided a dictionary between its wavefunction and CFT data.”
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“In this way, different interpretations of the state of the closed universe are not right or wrong so much as they are tailored to different questions.”
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“The overall point of this thought experiment is simply to show how very complex quantum processes in the closed universe can be seen to play out from the CFT perspective, provided there is enough”
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“Here the”
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- Not checked yetcites [84] A. Belin and J. de Boer, Random statistics of OPE coefficients and Euclidean wormholes, Class. Quant. Grav. 38 (2021) 164001 [arXiv:2006.05499] [INSPIRE]. source
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“With sufficiently large entropy S (and sufficiently rich bulk physics), we can plausibly hide a large quantum computer inside the closed universe and replicate any desired quantum computation.”
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“Moreover, although less general, the physical status of the clone is more transparent in the specific setup [6], and it corresponds to a collection of entangled particles in the AdS regions.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > 5.3 Reconstructing the closed universe from CFT data
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- Not checked yetcites [6] S. Antonini, M. Sasieta and B. Swingle, Cosmology from random entanglement, JHEP 11 (2023) 188 [arXiv:2307.14416] [INSPIRE]. source
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“Zooming out, we want to emphasize that it is natural to have a high prior that the EG argument had to fail for a simple but compelling meta-reason.”
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“While there are certainly universe-level effects that are inconsistent with QFT in the closed universe, it is still plausible that observers limited to small subsets of the closed universe experience standard QFT and that their experience is perfectly semiclassical.”
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“A somewhat different take on the idea of gauge equivalence is to say that the different descriptions are best suited to certain computations, for example, the naive bulk state in rQFTs is suitable for computing averages of single replica observables, the wormholes in rEFTs are suitable for computing averages of multi-replica observables, and the projected bulk state in rEFT proj s is suitable for”
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“The latter, where we include the effects of replica wormholes via the standard rules of the gravitational path integral, yields a more fine-grained [EFT], but one that is not fully self-consistent,”
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“Therefore, the closed universe cannot be truly entangled to an external system, as opposed to an isolated quantum lab, which could be fundamentally entangled.”
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“Therefore, if we can measure this quantity for various α's from the CFT using a similar protocol to the one explained above, we can reconstruct the corresponding geodesic lengths, and then deduce the bulk metric from them”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > 5.3 Reconstructing the closed universe from CFT data
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- Not checked yetcites [136] S. Bilson, Extracting Spacetimes using the AdS/CFT Conjecture: Part II, JHEP 02 (2011) 050 [arXiv:1012.1812] [INSPIRE]. source
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- Not matchedcites [137] A. Abdalla, S. Antonini, L. Iliesiu and A. Levine, work in progress.
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“These two states correspond to a system state which either starts in |ψ 0 y in the past (´) or ends up in state Θ S |ψ 0 y in the future (`).”
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“The form of the state in (3.11) can be thought of as”
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“From the fact that the argument in EG fails, we only learn that a semiclassical closed universe is not ruled out by the analysis therein.”
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“As a consequence of this quasi-randomness, the final state appears locally thermalized, and the global projection becomes irrelevant to describe the universe locally.”
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“One can naturally think of semiclassically distinguishable final states of the same classical background by slightly modifying the semiclassical details of the heavy operator, adding a few dust particles, or by adding a few matter quanta anywhere else in the universe.”
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“The tensor network is suggesting that the closed universe remains semiclassical when the entanglement is low, but the ability of the CFT to”
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“From another point of view, the closed universe is in the entanglement wedge of the bulk fields in the lr AdS regions and hence it is swapped when they are.”
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“The result of the SWAP test in that case yields the coarse-grained entropy of Hawking radiation, which follows the Hawking curve.”
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“Similarly, we can consider the right gas (encoded in the right CFT) as an auxiliary matter system M 1 entangled with some matter M in the closed universe (note the different interpretation we are now putting forward; previously both the right and left gases were interpreted as Ob 1 ).”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > B Closed universe with a geometric bottleneck
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“To reinforce the analogy with the evaporating black hole, the coarse-grained state discussed here is equivalent to the coarse-grained state of Hawking radiation, which can in fact be interpreted as an ensemble-averaged state[69].”
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- Not checked yetcites [69] R. Bousso and E. Wildenhain, Gravity/ensemble duality, Phys. Rev. D 102 (2020) 066005 [arXiv:2006.16289] [INSPIRE]. source
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“We thus have to overcome two bottlenecks: the geometric one (of size Spβ N q) and the one set by the entanglement Spρ r q.”
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“For the evaporating black hole made from collapse, exact unitarity of the S-matrix requires some fine-tuning of the final state[105].”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > C Gravitational argument for the final state wavefunction
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- Not checked yetcites [105] D. Gottesman and J. Preskill, Comment on ‘The Black hole final state’, JHEP 03 (2004) 026 [hep-th/0311269] [INSPIRE]. source
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“Assuming Zp2β N q is also in the black hole phase, we can estimate it using bulk black hole entropies to be e ´S2 pβ N q « e ´cd Spβ N q , where Spβ N q is the thermal black hole entropy and c d is an order 1 dimension-dependent coefficient.”
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“This provides a proper non-perturbative definition of the closed universe wavefunction using AdS/CFT, only valid when the closed universe hugs the Euclidean asymptotic boundary, as shown in Figure 23.”
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“In the context of holographic models, ensembles of theories are best understood in low-dimensional toy models and it is unclear how they generalize to higher dimensions due to the paucity of CFTs.”
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“Indeed, even a large network of such observers spread over the whole universe and given ample time to communicate and compute would probably be unable to find evidence of any projection.”
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“Although we considered the case of one boundary spatial dimension for the above description, the result can easily be generalized to higher dimensions.”
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“The mathematical difference is that the state |O c y is Gaussian random, so Gaussian isoperimetric measure concentration theorems replace those of the Haar measure in[68].”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > C Gravitational argument for the final state wavefunction
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- Not checked yetcites [68] C. Akers et al., The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity, JHEP 06 (2024) 155 [arXiv:2207.06536] [INSPIRE]. source
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“However, from the gravity side, evaluating such a wavefunction O I with the gravitational path integral by filling in the bulk will require some microscopic ingredient beyond the semiclassical description of the thin shell and it is not obvious that such a level of microscopic detail should be accessible semiclassically [70].”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > C Gravitational argument for the final state wavefunction
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- Not checked yetcites [70] P. Saad, S.H. Shenker, D. Stanford and S. Yao, Wormholes without averaging, JHEP 09 (2024) 133 [arXiv:2103.16754] [INSPIRE]. source
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“Furthermore, to map to the right CFT we have to do it through the entanglement with the right AdS gas, which in the heavy shell limit is entangled mainly with degrees of freedom to the right of both shells.”
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“In the black hole phase, this can only happen if the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of the black holes exceeds the EFT entropy of the black hole interior, in which case there is no”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > C Gravitational argument for the final state wavefunction
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- Not checked yetcites [95] S. Antonini et al., Non-isometry, state dependence and holography, JHEP 02 (2025) 150 [arXiv:2411.07296] [INSPIRE]. source
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“This feature does not modify the main conclusion of the paper, and in particular in this computation it just adds another suppressed piece to the variance of the overlap.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > C Gravitational argument for the final state wavefunction
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- Not matchedcites [52] D. Harlow, M. Usatyuk and Y. Zhao, Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe, arXiv:2501.02359 [INSPIRE].
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“A MERA tensor network of the closed universe Here we present a more detailed model of the closed universe tensor network using MERA and the recent TMERA ansatz [63], which extends MERA from ground states to thermal states.”
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- Not matchedcites [63] T.J. Sewell, C.D. White and B. Swingle, Thermal Multi-scale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz for Variational Gibbs State Preparation, arXiv:2210.16419 [INSPIRE].
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“When each of these terms dominates, the entanglement wedge of the left CFT respectively includes no portion of the cosmology, the whole closed universe, or just the left half of the closed universe up to the extremal surface (in addition to the left AdS in all cases).”
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“Had we built the bottleneck with a small black hole by using some sort of microcanonical preparation, the gas should still have less entropy: the smallest stable black hole has larger entropy than the most entropic stable gas.”
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“Even if the rest of the universe also gravitates, it corresponds to a conventional vacuum AdS space, and all the microscopic data has been isolated to the thin shell close to the boundary.”
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“This discussion is clearly reminiscent of black hole evaporation, see e.g.[66,67,69], in which the growing entropy of the Hawking state (the equivalent of [QFT] in our setting) emerges from averaging the state in each replica separately, whereas the Page curve emerges when including spacetime wormholes, which implement correlated averages among replicas (the equivalent of [EFT] in our discussion).”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > C Gravitational argument for the final state wavefunction
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- Not checked yetcites [66] G. Penington, S.H. Shenker, D. Stanford and Z. Yang, Replica wormholes and the black hole interior, JHEP 03 (2022) 205 [arXiv:1911.11977] [INSPIRE]. source
- Not checked yetcites [67] A. Almheiri et al., Replica Wormholes and the Entropy of Hawking Radiation, JHEP 05 (2020) 013 [arXiv:1911.12333] [INSPIRE]. source
- Not checked yetcites [69] R. Bousso and E. Wildenhain, Gravity/ensemble duality, Phys. Rev. D 102 (2020) 066005 [arXiv:2006.16289] [INSPIRE]. source
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“In the language of observers and clones of [52], we can consider the left gas (isometrically encoded in the standard way in the left CFT) as the clone Ob 1 of the corresponding observer entangled degrees of freedom in the cosmology, Ob.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > B Closed universe with a geometric bottleneck
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites [52] D. Harlow, M. Usatyuk and Y. Zhao, Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe, arXiv:2501.02359 [INSPIRE].
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“Recall the importance of the heavy shell limit, which avoids specifying the wavefunction by evaluating the gravitational path integral for a fixed O operator; instead, it relates the wavefunction to a non-perturbatively defined object in the Euclidean CFT.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > C Gravitational argument for the final state wavefunction
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“Depending on the details of the bulk theory, we can presumably arrange for the mean free path to be much less than the AdS radius by dialing up the density and entropy of the bulk gas.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > C Gravitational argument for the final state wavefunction
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“Note that this model is very similar to the model in[68], with the different interpretation that part of the entanglement is non-geometric.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > C Gravitational argument for the final state wavefunction
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [68] C. Akers et al., The black hole interior from non-isometric codes and complexity, JHEP 06 (2024) 155 [arXiv:2207.06536] [INSPIRE]. source
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“On the other hand, the Hamiltonian constraint imposes the invariance of the wavefunction under temporal diffeomorphisms”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > C Gravitational argument for the final state wavefunction
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“Essentially, the argument is that in the limit of large mass mℓ Ñ 8 for the heavy operator, the situation is equivalent to having a very large universe, where one can use (C.4) and define the final state wavefunction directly from CFT data.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > C Gravitational argument for the final state wavefunction
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The states |Ψ_AB> and |Ψ'_CD> can be prepared by suitable Euclidean CFT path integrals on a cylinder.
“We will assume that the states |Ψ AB y and |Ψ 1 CD y can be prepared by suitable Euclidean CFT path integrals on a cylinder, generally via a time-dependent Hamiltonian evolution.”
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The mass of each dust particle is small enough (Δ << N^2) that the backreaction on the S5 factor is negligible.
“we can assume that the mass of each dust particle is small enough, ∆ !N 2 , so that the backreaction on the S 5 factor is negligible.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The AdS part of the metric on the closed universe is determined by (2.1) and (2.2), neglecting the backreaction of other matter fields except for the shell.
“The AdS part of the metric on the closed universe is then determined by (2.1) and (2.2), again neglecting the backreaction of other matter fields except for the shell.”
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The universe can accommodate N^{18/17} matter degrees of freedom per AdS scale volume, defining the code subspace within the closed universe.
“we will assume that the universe can accommodate N 18{17 matter degrees of freedom per AdS scale volume; this defines our code subspace within the closed universe.”
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The heavy shell is not part of the code subspace but is part of a fixed background that holds the universe together.
“we will not consider the heavy shell as a part of this code subspace, but rather as part of a fixed background which holds the universe together.”
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The standard holographic dictionary and holographic map V apply to the closed universe setup.
“Using the standard holographic map V , this bulk operator maps to the boundary SWAP operator, or more precisely to the boundary SWAP operator restricted to a low-energy subspace (although the full SWAP does the job just fine).”
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The tensor network model used faithfully represents the relevant CFT/closed universe physics.
“The tensor network makes it clear that the same underlying structure is present in all these cases.”
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The final state projection perspective is a valid model of the closed universe.
“Taking this perspective, the final state projection modifies the global structure of the quantum mechanics in the closed universe, irrespective of whether there is entanglement with the exterior or not.”
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In gravitating systems, fine-grained entropies of microscopic systems can be captured in terms of coarse-grained entropies of dynamically determined regions of the geometry.
“One of the central lessons of recent years is that, in gravitating systems, fine-grained entropies of”
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The erratic parts of the heavy operator's matrix elements behave as i.i.d. random complex Gaussian variables.
“The erratic parts behave as i.i.d.random complex Gaussian variables, which leads to”
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The system Hamiltonian H is a random GOE matrix.
“The system has a Hilbert space of dimension D S and a Hamiltonian H which we will take to be random and of GOE form.”
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The CR action is trivial.
“Such a GOE Hamiltonian is a simple model of a CRT-invariant bulk theory where we take the CR action to be trivial.”
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The system and clock are non-interacting.
“Although we have idealized the system and clock as not interacting, this is not strictly necessary”
The authors state this as an assumption.
There is a tunable parameter on the states |Ψ_LB> and |Ψ_CR> in (2.5) that changes their energy, and above the threshold these states correspond to high-energy equilibrium states of two-sided small black holes with connected interiors.
“We assume that there is a tunable parameter on the states |Ψ LB y and |Ψ CR y in (2.5) that changes their energy.Above the threshold, these states correspond to high-energy equilibrium states of two-sided small black holes with connected interiors.”
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The Born rule is included in the rules of quantum theory.
“For now, we are including the Born rule in the rules of quantum theory.”
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The observer's Hilbert space H_Ob has smaller dimension than the rest of the universe H_M, i.e., we are in the effectively isometric encoding regime discussed in Section 2.5.
“Here we assume that the observer's Hilbert space H Ob has smaller dimension than the rest of the universe H M , namely, that we are in the effectively isometric encoding regime discussed in Section 2.5.”
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The ground state has a MERA representation.
“To start, assume, as in [63], that the ground state has a MERA representation, as shown schematically in Figure 19.”
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Z(2β_N) is also in the black hole phase.
“Assuming Zp2β N q is also in the black hole phase, we can estimate it using bulk black hole entropies to be e ´S2 pβ N q « e ´cd Spβ N q , where Spβ N q is the thermal black hole entropy and c d is an order 1 dimension-dependent coefficient.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
At least one of S(ρ_l) or S(ρ_r) is large.
“we assume for this that at least one of Spρ l q or Spρ r q is large”
The paper relies on this without support.
The fluctuations of the norm of the CFT states are suppressed, allowing normalization with the average.
“we are using that the fluctuations of the norm of the CFT states are suppressed to normalize with the average”
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In the paper
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > Additional information
“Here we present a more detailed model of the closed universe tensor network using MERA and the recent TMERA ansatz [63], which extends MERA from ground states to thermal states.”
§ The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universes > References
“63. H. Geng, L.-Y. Hung, Y. Jiang, "It from ETH: Multi-interval Entanglement and Replica Wormholes from Large-c BCFT Ensemble " 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20385.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Antonini, S., Rath, P., Sasieta, M., Swingle, B., & Vilar López, A.
- Affiliations
- University of California System (US)
- Brandeis University (US)
- University of British Columbia
- Corresponding author
- Antonini, Stefano
- Venue
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Published
- 2025-12-22
- Volume
- 2025
- Issue
- 12
- ISSN
- 1029-8479 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W7117112422
- Semantic Scholar
- 600018c3193fe88c5dacb4edea5506423438bc72
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 145
- Citations by year
- 2026: 31 · 2025: 4
- FWCI
- 8.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of High Energy Physics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- U.S.~Department of Energy (DE-FOA-0002563)
- U.S.~Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics (DE-SC0025293)
- Heising-Simons Foundation (2024-4849)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Keywords
- closed universe, baby universes, AdS/CFT correspondence, holography, arrow of time, effective field theory
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