PIRSA:25060018

Randomizing excitations of half-BPS states gives near-extremal black holes

Verheijden, E. (2025). Randomizing excitations of half-BPS states gives near-extremal black holes. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/25060018

Verheijden, Evita. Randomizing excitations of half-BPS states gives near-extremal black holes. Perimeter Institute, Jun. 24, 2025, https://pirsa.org/25060018 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:25060018,
            doi = {10.48660/25060018},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/25060018},
            author = {Verheijden, Evita},
            keywords = {Quantum Gravity, Quantum Information},
            language = {en},
            title = {Randomizing excitations of half-BPS states gives near-extremal black holes},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2025},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:25060018 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Evita Verheijden MIT

Talk numberPIRSA:25060018
DOI10.48660/25060018
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Talk Type Conference
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Abstract

I will discuss a concrete realization in N=4 SYM of the mechanism of cryptographic censorship: that sufficiently random time evolution in a holographic CFT incurs an event horizon in the bulk dual. I will show that perturbing half-BPS states by randomly distributing a large number of defects on them corresponds in the gravitational dual to exciting an extremal (horizonless) black hole to near-extremality. This random distribution of defects corresponds to acting with a typical random isometry on the half-BPS subspace. This allows us to interpret this process in the field theory as an extension of cryptographic censorship.