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Large N phases, gravitational instantons and the nuts and bolts of AdS holography
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Recent results in the literature concerning holography indicate that the thermodynamics of quantum gravity (at least with a negative cosmological constant) can be modeled by the large N thermodynamics of quantum field theory. We emphasize that this suggests a completely unitary evolution of processes in quantum gravity, including black hole formation and decay, and even more extreme examples involving topology change. As concrete examples which show that this correspondence holds even when the space-time is only locally asymptotically AdS, we compute the thermodynamical phase structure of the AdS-Taub-NUT and AdS-Taub-bolt spacetimes, and compare them to a (2+1)-dimensional conformal field theory (at large N) compactified on a squashed three-sphere and on the twisted plane.
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CHAMBLIN, A., et al. Large N phases, gravitational instantons and the nuts and bolts of AdS holography. Physical Review D. 1999. Vol. 59, num. 6, pags. 064010-1-064010-9. ISSN 0556-2821. [consulted: 15 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/12364