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Résumé |
In this talk, I will explore how the sum over topologies in pure AdS_3? quantum gravity furnishes a consistent statistical interpretation of the boundary CFT_2. By formulating a statistical version of the conformal bootstrap, which combines crossing symmetry with typicality at high energies, we will discover a large set of non-handlebody topologies in the bulk (of which I will give some examples) that are needed for consistency of the boundary description. Interestingly, this set contains only on-shell (i.e. hyperbolic) 3-manifolds, but not all of them. This suggests that the full sum over all on-shell saddles in 3d gravity may be a highly non-minimal solution of the statistical bootstrap. Based on the recent work 2601.07906 with Belin, Collier, Eberhardt and Liska. |
