de Haro, Sebastian and Mayerson, Daniel and Butterfield, Jeremy (2015) Conceptual Aspects of Gauge/Gravity Duality. [Preprint]

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We give an introductory review of gauge/gravity duality, and associated ideas of holography, emphasising the conceptual aspects. The opening Sections gather the ingredients, viz. anti-de Sitter spacetime, conformal field theory and string theory, that we need for presenting, in Section 5, the central and original example: Maldacena's AdS/CFT correspondence. Sections 6 and 7 develop the ideas of this example, also in applications to condensed matter systems, QCD, and hydrodynamics. Sections 8 and 9 discuss the possible extensions of holographic ideas to de Sitter spacetime and to black holes. Section 10 discusses the bearing of gauge/gravity duality on two philosophical topics: the equivalence of physical theories, and the idea that spacetime, or some features of it, are emergent.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID de Haro, Sebastian sd696@cam.ac.uk Mayerson, Daniel drmayer@umich.edu Butterfield, Jeremy jb56@cam.ac.uk
Additional Information:	47 pages; submitted to Foundations of Physics
Keywords:	gauge/gravity duality, AdS/CFT, anti-de Sitter spacetime, conformal field theory, string theory, Maldacena, theoretical equivalence, emergence
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	Jeremy Butterfield
Date Deposited:	02 Oct 2015 15:45
Last Modified:	02 Oct 2015 15:45
Item ID:	11701
Official URL:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.09231
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	September 2015
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11701

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