Rickles, Dean (2011) AdS/CFT Duality and the Emergence of Spacetime. [Preprint]
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Abstract
The AdS/CFT duality has been a source of several strong conceptual claims in the physics literature. In this paper I focus on one of these: the extent to which spacetime geometry and locality can be said to \emph{emerge} from this duality, so that neither is fundamental. I argue: (1) that the kind of emergence in question is relatively weak, involving one can of spacetime emerging from another kind of spacetime; (2) inasmuch as there is something conceptually interesting to say about the emergence of spacetime and locality (\emph{vis-\`{a}-vis} spacetime ontology), it is no different from that already well known to those within canonical quantum gravity; (3) that at the core of AdS/CFT is an issue of \emph{representation} and \emph{redundancy} in representation.
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| Additional Information: | Submitted to a Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics special issue on the Emergence of Spacetime in Quantum Gravity (edited by Nick Huggett and Chris Wuthrich). | ||||||
| Keywords: | AdS/CFT Correspondence, Emergence, String theory, Duality, Representation | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Dean Rickles | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2012 11:35 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 27 Mar 2012 11:35 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 9061 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Date: | 1 September 2011 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9061 |
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