Date
Thu, 05 Feb 2026
12:45
Location
L6
Speaker
Boris Post

For this JC, I will review the recently much debated puzzles that arise in holographic systems with baby universes. After describing the original set-up of Antonini-Sasieta-Swingle, I will explain the paradox raised by Antonini-Rath, which suggests the existence of a single CFT state that can have two distinct holographic descriptions in the bulk: one with a closed baby universe and one without. I will discuss various proposed resolutions of this puzzle, which may (or may not) require us to rethink the holographic dictionary in AdS/CFT.

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