04.10.2023 (Wednesday)

Wheeler DeWitt States of a Charged AdS4 Black Hole

Regular Seminar Sirui Ning (University of Oxford)

at:
14:00 IC
room Huxley 503
abstract:

In this talk, I will present a thorough investigation of the Wheeler-de Witt(WdW) equation within the framework of a Reissner-Nordstrom Anti-de Sitter (RN-AdS) black hole background and its relation to holographic renormalization flow. We solve the Wheeler DeWitt equation for the planar Reissner-Nordstrom-AdS black hole in a minisuperspace approximation and construct semiclassical Wheeler DeWitt states from Gaussian wavepackets that are peaked on classical black hole interior solutions. Furthermore, towards the AdS boundary, the Wheeler DeWitt states are used to recover the Lorentzian partition function of the dual theory living on this boundary. This partition function is specified by an energy and a charge. Finally, we show that the Wheeler DeWitt states know about the black hole thermodynamics, recovering the grand canonical thermodynamic potential after an appropriate averaging at the black hole horizon.