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Negative energies and the breakdown of bulk geometry

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25782v1
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:00:00 GMT
Title: Negative energies and the breakdown of bulk geometry
Abstract summary: We show that non-perturbative effects can invalidate the semiclassical description at much smaller length scales than previously expected.<n>Results provide a new mechanism for the breakdown of effective gravitational theories.
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Abstract: One central question in quantum gravity is to understand how and why predictions from semiclassical gravity can break down in regimes with low spacetime curvature. One diagnostic of such a breakdown is that states which are orthonormal at the semiclassical level can receive large corrections to their inner products from quantum fluctuations. We study this effect by examining inner products in pure 2D JT gravity. Previous work showed that black hole states with long interiors exhibit a breakdown at length scales of order $e^{S_0}$, where $S_0$ is a parameter analogous to $1/G_N$ in higher dimensions. This breakdown is caused by the discreteness of the spectrum of the dual boundary random matrix theory. We show that the full sum over quantum fluctuations indicates a more dramatic breakdown at parametrically shorter lengths of order $e^{S_0/3}$. In the dual boundary description, these corrections arise from negative energy states appearing in rare members of the random matrix ensemble. These results demonstrate that non-perturbative effects can invalidate the semiclassical description at much smaller length scales than previously expected, providing a new mechanism for the breakdown of effective gravitational theories.

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