We attempt to construct eternal traversable wormholes connecting two asymptotically AdS regions by introducing a static coupling between their dual CFTs. We prove that there are no semiclassical traversable wormholes with Poincaré invariance in the boundary directions in higher than two spacetime dimensions. We critically examine the possibility of evading our result by coupling a large number of bulk fields. Static, traversable wormholes with less symmetry may be possible, and could be constructed using the ingredients we develop here.
We compute the on-shell Euclidean action of Schwarzschild-de Sitter black holes, and take their contributions in the gravitational path integral into account using the formalism of constrained instantons. Although Euclidean de Sitter black hole geometries have conical singularities for generic masses, their on-shell action is finite and is shown to be equal to minus the sum of the black hole and cosmological horizon entropy. We apply this result to compute the probability for a nonrotating, neutral arbitrary mass black hole to nucleate spontaneously in empty de Sitter space, which separates into a "perturbative" and a "nonperturbative" contribution, the latter corresponding to the proper saddle-point instanton in the Nariai limit. We also speculate on some further applications of our results, most notably the possible non-perturbative corrections to anti-podal correlators in the de Sitter vacuum.
We discuss some implications of recent progress in understanding the black hole information paradox for complementarity in de Sitter space. Extending recent work by two of the authors, we describe a bulk procedure that allows information expelled through the cosmological horizon to be received by an antipodal observer. Generically, this information transfer takes a scrambling time t = H−1 log(SdS). We emphasize that this procedure relies crucially on selection of the Bunch-Davies vacuum state, interpreted as the thermofield double state that maximally entangles two antipodal static patches. The procedure also requires the presence of an (entangled) energy reservoir, created by the collection of Hawking modes from the cosmological horizon. We show how this procedure avoids a cloning paradox and comment on its implications.
We compute the on-shell Euclidean action of Schwarzschild-de Sitter
black holes, and take their contributions in the gravitational path
integral into account using the formalism of constrained instantons.
Although Euclidean de Sitter black hole geometries have conical
singularities for generic masses, their on-shell action is finite and is
shown to be independent of the Euclidean time periodicity and equal to
minus the sum of the black hole and cosmological horizon entropy. We
apply this result to compute the probability for a nonrotating, neutral
arbitrary mass black hole to nucleate spontaneously in empty de Sitter
space, which separates into a constant and a “non-perturbative”
contribution, the latter corresponding to the proper saddle-point
instanton in the Nariai limit. We also speculate on some further
applications of our results, most notably as potential non-perturbative
corrections to correlators in the de Sitter vacuum.
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