Holographic Banners

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Main Authors: Blacker, Matthew J., Hartnoll, Sean A.
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Published: 2026
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author Blacker, Matthew J.
Hartnoll, Sean A.
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Hartnoll, Sean A.
contents This paper is concerned with eternal AdS black holes. The quantum cosmological future and past interior states of the black hole may be placed on an equal footing to the left and right AdS boundary data by considering the on-shell bulk action as a function of the left/right/future/past data: $S[ϕ^{(0)L},ϕ^{(0)R},ϕ^{(0)F},ϕ^{(0)P}]$. We call this object a holographic banner, and it obeys the Hamilton-Jacobi equation with respect to all four of its arguments. We compute the holographic banner for a scalar field in an AdS black hole background explicitly and use it to construct the semiclassical state in the future interior obtained from a thermofield double state in the past evolved by arbitrary time- and space-dependent boundary sources. When the spacetime itself is dynamical we explain how the holographic banner gives, in principle, a map from boundary data to near-singularity semiclassical quantum cosmology following chaotic BKL dynamics. We obtain the timescale for the BKL dynamics to ergodically mix the future interior quantum state, given a quantum variance in the past state or a classical ensemble of boundary theories.
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Blacker, Matthew J.
Hartnoll, Sean A.
High Energy Physics - Theory
This paper is concerned with eternal AdS black holes. The quantum cosmological future and past interior states of the black hole may be placed on an equal footing to the left and right AdS boundary data by considering the on-shell bulk action as a function of the left/right/future/past data: $S[ϕ^{(0)L},ϕ^{(0)R},ϕ^{(0)F},ϕ^{(0)P}]$. We call this object a holographic banner, and it obeys the Hamilton-Jacobi equation with respect to all four of its arguments. We compute the holographic banner for a scalar field in an AdS black hole background explicitly and use it to construct the semiclassical state in the future interior obtained from a thermofield double state in the past evolved by arbitrary time- and space-dependent boundary sources. When the spacetime itself is dynamical we explain how the holographic banner gives, in principle, a map from boundary data to near-singularity semiclassical quantum cosmology following chaotic BKL dynamics. We obtain the timescale for the BKL dynamics to ergodically mix the future interior quantum state, given a quantum variance in the past state or a classical ensemble of boundary theories.
title Holographic Banners
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02514