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Report on 2105.08207v3

Report on 2105.08207v3

In this note we study the SYK model with one time point, recently considered by Saad, Shenker, Stanford, and Yao.Working in a collective field description, they derived a remarkable identity: the square of the partition function with fixed couplings is well approximated by a "wormhole" saddle plus a "half-wormhole" saddle.It …