Higher spin wormholes from modular bootstrap
Abstract
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.
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