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| author | Betzios, Panos Lee, Ji Hoon Papadoulaki, Olga Zhou, Yanjun |
| author_facet | Betzios, Panos Lee, Ji Hoon Papadoulaki, Olga Zhou, Yanjun |
| contents | The thermofield double state entangles two copies of a CFT via a sum over energy eigenstates and is dual to the two-sided eternal black hole. We explore an analogous construction using sums over gauge group representations of half-BPS Wilson loops in multiple copies of $U(N)$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills. These sums act as delta function-like operators that correlate the eigenvalues of the corresponding half-BPS matrix models. We suggest that the holographic duals are ''bubbling wormhole'' geometries: multi-covers of AdS$_5$ $\times S^5$ whose conformal boundary consists of multiple four-spheres intersecting on a common circle. We analyze the matrix model free energy, discuss its bulk interpretation, and study probe loops in these backgrounds. |
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| spellingShingle | Bubbling wormholes and matrix models Betzios, Panos Lee, Ji Hoon Papadoulaki, Olga Zhou, Yanjun High Energy Physics - Theory The thermofield double state entangles two copies of a CFT via a sum over energy eigenstates and is dual to the two-sided eternal black hole. We explore an analogous construction using sums over gauge group representations of half-BPS Wilson loops in multiple copies of $U(N)$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills. These sums act as delta function-like operators that correlate the eigenvalues of the corresponding half-BPS matrix models. We suggest that the holographic duals are ''bubbling wormhole'' geometries: multi-covers of AdS$_5$ $\times S^5$ whose conformal boundary consists of multiple four-spheres intersecting on a common circle. We analyze the matrix model free energy, discuss its bulk interpretation, and study probe loops in these backgrounds. |
| title | Bubbling wormholes and matrix models |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24891 |