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Quantum Operators in Gravity: From Geometric Entropies to Group-Averaged Observables
Quantum Operators in Gravity: From Geometric Entropies to Group-Averaged Observables
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152838
- ISBN
- 9798342719575
- DDC
- 530.1
- 서명/저자
- Quantum Operators in Gravity: From Geometric Entropies to Group-Averaged Observables
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 236 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Marolf, Donald.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약In this thesis, we first study the action of Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi (HRT) area operators on the covariant phase space of classical solutions in Einstein-Hilbert gravity. We find that this action is a boundary-condition-preserving kink transformation, which introduces a relative boost between the entanglement wedges on either side of the HRT-surface but preserves the asymptotically Anti-de Sitter (AdS) boundary conditions. We then perform a similar analysis for the ''geometric entropy", i.e. the bulk dual to boundary entanglement entropy, in topologically massive gravity (TMG). Here, the geometric entropy is given by the HRT-area plus an anomalous contribution. We find that the action of this geometric entropy on the covariant phase space of classical solutions agrees precisely with the action of HRT-area operators in Einstein-Hilbert gravity.In Einstein-Hilbert gravity, we show that HRT-areas do not generally commute. This poses an obstruction to constructing random tensor networks (RTNs), which are most analogous to fixed-area states of the bulk quantum gravity theory, with mutually commuting HRT-areas. We probe the severity of such obstructions in pure AdS3 Einstein-Hilbert gravity by constructing networks whose links are codimension-2 extremal-surfaces and by explicitly computing semiclassical commutators of the associated link-areas. We find a simple 4-link network for which all link-areas commute, but the algebra generated by the link-areas of more general networks tends to be non-Abelian.In the final chapter, we switch gears and explore perturbative quantum gravity around de Sitter space, where gauge-invariant observables cannot be localized and, instead, local physics can arise only through certain relational constructions. In particular, we describe a class of gauge-invariant observables which, under appropriate conditions, provide good approximations to certain algebras of local fields. Our results suggest that, near any minimal Sd in dSd+1, this approximation can be accurate only over regions in which the corresponding global time coordinate t spans an interval of order ∆t ≲ ln G−1. In contrast, however, we find that the approximation can be accurate over arbitrarily large regions of global dSd+1 so long as those regions are located far to the future or past of such a minimal Sd . This in particular includes arbitrarily large parts of any static patch.
- 일반주제명
- Theoretical physics
- 일반주제명
- Physics
- 일반주제명
- Quantum physics
- 키워드
- Anti-de Sitter
- 기타저자
- University of California, Santa Barbara Physics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-05B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■24510▼aQuantum Operators in Gravity: From Geometric Entropies to Group-Averaged Observables
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■500 ▼aSource: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05, Section: B.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024.
■520 ▼aIn this thesis, we first study the action of Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi (HRT) area operators on the covariant phase space of classical solutions in Einstein-Hilbert gravity. We find that this action is a boundary-condition-preserving kink transformation, which introduces a relative boost between the entanglement wedges on either side of the HRT-surface but preserves the asymptotically Anti-de Sitter (AdS) boundary conditions. We then perform a similar analysis for the ''geometric entropy", i.e. the bulk dual to boundary entanglement entropy, in topologically massive gravity (TMG). Here, the geometric entropy is given by the HRT-area plus an anomalous contribution. We find that the action of this geometric entropy on the covariant phase space of classical solutions agrees precisely with the action of HRT-area operators in Einstein-Hilbert gravity.In Einstein-Hilbert gravity, we show that HRT-areas do not generally commute. This poses an obstruction to constructing random tensor networks (RTNs), which are most analogous to fixed-area states of the bulk quantum gravity theory, with mutually commuting HRT-areas. We probe the severity of such obstructions in pure AdS3 Einstein-Hilbert gravity by constructing networks whose links are codimension-2 extremal-surfaces and by explicitly computing semiclassical commutators of the associated link-areas. We find a simple 4-link network for which all link-areas commute, but the algebra generated by the link-areas of more general networks tends to be non-Abelian.In the final chapter, we switch gears and explore perturbative quantum gravity around de Sitter space, where gauge-invariant observables cannot be localized and, instead, local physics can arise only through certain relational constructions. In particular, we describe a class of gauge-invariant observables which, under appropriate conditions, provide good approximations to certain algebras of local fields. Our results suggest that, near any minimal Sd in dSd+1, this approximation can be accurate only over regions in which the corresponding global time coordinate t spans an interval of order ∆t ≲ ln G−1. In contrast, however, we find that the approximation can be accurate over arbitrarily large regions of global dSd+1 so long as those regions are located far to the future or past of such a minimal Sd . This in particular includes arbitrarily large parts of any static patch.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0035.
■650 4▼aTheoretical physics
■650 4▼aPhysics
■650 4▼aQuantum physics
■653 ▼aAnti-de Sitter
■653 ▼aHubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi
■653 ▼aTopologically massive gravity
■653 ▼aRandom tensor networks
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■71020▼aUniversity of California, Santa Barbara▼bPhysics.
■7730 ▼tDissertations Abstracts International▼g86-05B.
■790 ▼a0035
■791 ▼aPh.D.
■792 ▼a2024
■793 ▼aEnglish
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