Special String Theory Seminar: Ben Freivogel (University of Amsterdam)”Wormholes calculate averages over states”

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Abstract: I will show that wormholes naturally arise as the gravity dual of an average over different states within a single conformal field theory. These wormholes give a simple way to diagnose how typical pure states differ from the thermal density matrix. Based on work to appear with D. Nikolakopoulou and A. Rotundo.