I this talk I will describe a picture which has emerged over the past few years regarding the statistical interpretation of semiclassical gravity and how this relates to wormholes, averaging and the so-called factorization puzzle, the information paradox, and a combinatorial description of 3d gravity.

While a lot of work has been done on understanding thermalization in 2d CFTs, several confusing aspects remain, in particular regarding integrable aspects of 2d CFTs. In this talk I will try to summarize some of these confusions and how these connect to AdS/CFT and black hole formation. There appears to be a significant difference between thermalization in low c CFTs versus thermalization in large c CFTs with gravitational duals.

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