Higher spin wormholes from modular bootstrap

Diptarka Das, Shouvik Datta
2021 Journal of High Energy Physics  
We investigate the connection between spacetime wormholes and ensemble averaging in the context of higher spin AdS3/CFT2. Using techniques from modular bootstrap combined with some holographic inputs, we evaluate the partition function of a Euclidean wormhole in AdS3 higher spin gravity. The fixed spin sectors of the dual CFT2 exhibit features that starkly go beyond conventional random matrix ensembles: power-law ramps in the spectral form factor and potentials with a double-well/crest underlying the level statistics.
doi:10.1007/jhep10(2021)010 fatcat:nbrpilys4fckrkysd4nxtk4eua