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Spacetime Wormholes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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Don Marolf (UCSB)
Varian 355
Varian 355
May
8
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Abstract: Studies of spacetime wormholes have led to the understanding of important physics. But some wormhole saddles seem to lead to contradictions with AdS/CFT (even with ensembles of CFTs). One would expect this to be sorted out by determining which saddles are "relevant" or "stable," but confusions remain. In particular, despite a number of recent Euclidean stability analyses, axion wormholes remain a poster child for this issue.