Constructing and Probing Three-Boundary Booklet Geometries

Abstract:Partially entangled thermal states (PETS) provide semiclassical families of black-hole microstates prepared through heavy shell insertions. We extend this shell-state framework and propose three-boundary partially entangled thermal states (PETS$_3$) by replacing the two-index insertion data with a trivalent junction tensor. The corresponding bulk three-boundary booklet geometry is constrained semiclassically by the Israel junction condition, allowing us to identify candidate symmetric and mixed-orientation branches. We verify the self-consistency of this construction by counting states in the symmetric all-black-hole sector. Using a heavy-operator probe, we further estimate the detection-to-universal ratio to be $Z_D/Z_U \simeq 3$, twice the two-boundary value of $3/2$. These results suggest that a fine-tuned probe localized on one boundary can test the proposed three-boundary shell state and potentially distinguish it from its two-boundary counterpart.

arXiv:2609.37099 [hep-th]

(or arXiv:2609.37099v1 [hep-th] for this version)

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