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State-Dependent Bulk-Boundary Maps and Black Hole Complementarity

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We provide a simple and explicit construction of local bulk operators that describe the interior of a black hole in the AdS/CFT correspondence. The existence of these operators is predicated on the assumption that the mapping of CFT operators to local bulk operators depends on the state of the CFT. We show that our construction leads to an exactly local effective field theory in the bulk. Barring the fact that their charge and energy can be measured at infinity, we show that the commutator of local operators inside and outside the black hole vanishes exactly, when evaluated within correlation functions of the CFT. Our construction leads to a natural resolution of the strong subadditivity paradox of Mathur and Almheiri et al. Furthermore, we show how, using these operators, it is possible to reconcile small corrections to effective field theory correlators with the unitarity of black hole evaporation. We address and resolve all other arguments, advanced in arxiv:1304.6483 and arxiv:1307.4706, in favour of structure at the black hole horizon. We extend our construction to states that are near equilibrium, and thereby also address the "frozen vacuum" objections of arxiv:1308.3697. Finally, we explore an intriguing link between our construction of interior operators and Tomita-Takesaki theory.

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Smooth horizons from topology change in canonical quantum gravity

hep-th · 2026-06-04 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Topology change in canonical JT gravity resolves the firewall paradox by making the connected two-interior branch dominate after Page time, with gravitational constraints annihilating the firewall branch and identifying horizon vacuum and early radiation purity as the same Dirac observable.

q-Askey Deformations of Double-Scaled SYK

hep-th · 2026-05-13 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0 · 2 refs

q-Askey deformations of DSSYK produce transfer matrices from basic orthogonal polynomials whose chord numbers map to ER bridge lengths and signal geometric transitions with discrete spectra in sine dilaton gravity.

Subregion Complementarity in AdS/CFT

hep-th · 2023-09-08 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Subregion duality fails in AdS/CFT at leading large N, leading to the proposal of subregion complementarity allowing different CFT operators to describe one bulk subregion.

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  • Smooth horizons from topology change in canonical quantum gravity hep-th · 2026-06-04 · unverdicted · none · ref 13 · internal anchor

    Topology change in canonical JT gravity resolves the firewall paradox by making the connected two-interior branch dominate after Page time, with gravitational constraints annihilating the firewall branch and identifying horizon vacuum and early radiation purity as the same Dirac observable.

  • q-Askey Deformations of Double-Scaled SYK hep-th · 2026-05-13 · unverdicted · none · ref 83 · 2 links · internal anchor

    q-Askey deformations of DSSYK produce transfer matrices from basic orthogonal polynomials whose chord numbers map to ER bridge lengths and signal geometric transitions with discrete spectra in sine dilaton gravity.

  • Subregion Complementarity in AdS/CFT hep-th · 2023-09-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 28 · internal anchor

    Subregion duality fails in AdS/CFT at leading large N, leading to the proposal of subregion complementarity allowing different CFT operators to describe one bulk subregion.

  • Wigner negativity in Krylov space and emergent semiclassicality hep-th · 2026-07-01 · unverdicted · none · ref 72 · internal anchor

    Wigner negativity in Krylov space stays O(1) or grows as t^{1/2} (without Hilbert-space scaling) in 2d CFTs, one-cut matrix models, and double-scaled SYK, indicating emergent semiclassicality.

  • Cosmological Entanglement Entropy from the von Neumann Algebra of Double-Scaled SYK & Its Connection with Krylov Complexity hep-th · 2025-11-05 · unverdicted · none · ref 161 · internal anchor

    Algebraic entanglement entropy from type II1 algebras in double-scaled SYK is matched via triple-scaling limits to Ryu-Takayanagi areas in (A)dS2, reproducing Bekenstein-Hawking and Gibbons-Hawking formulas for specific regions while depending on Krylov complexity of the Hartle-Hawking state.

  • Rethinking quantum information in gravity and fields hep-th · 2026-06-29 · unverdicted · none · ref 144 · internal anchor

    The paper organizes important open questions in quantum gravity and quantum information into four themes without presenting new results or derivations.