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Dualities and Emergent Gravity: AdS/CFT and Verlinde's Scheme

de Haro, Sebastian (2015) Dualities and Emergent Gravity: AdS/CFT and Verlinde's Scheme. [Preprint]

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In this paper I analyse two closely related examples of duality and of emergence of gravity, namely AdS/CFT and Verlinde's scheme. Based on the notion of duality introduced in Dieks et al. (2014), I here elaborate on the conditions necessary for AdS/CFT to be a duality, in particular the condition of completeness. I also address what is usually seen as a desideratum for any candidate theory of quantum gravity: the background-independence of the theory and the diffeomorphism invariance of the observables. Then I discuss Verlinde's scheme and the extent to which it gives a clear case of emergence of gravity. Finally, I give a novel derivation of the Bekenstein-Hawking black hole entropy formula based on Verlinde's scheme.


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Item Type: Preprint
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de Haro, Sebastians.deharo@auc.nl
Keywords: Duality, AdS/CFT, holography, emergence, quantum gravity, string theory
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity
Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics
Depositing User: Dr Sebastian De Haro
Date Deposited: 25 Jan 2015 17:38
Last Modified: 09 Sep 2015 12:58
Item ID: 11281
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity
Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics
Date: 25 January 2015
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11281

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