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AdS/CFT Duality and the Emergence of Spacetime.

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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    Item Type: Preprint
    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
    Depositing User: Dr Dean Rickles
    Date Deposited: 27 Mar 2012 07:35
    Last Modified: 27 Mar 2012 07:35
    Item ID: 9061
    URI: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9061

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