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A note on bulk locality and covariance in AdS/CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-10-16 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

This paper studies a recently proposed relation between the emergence of bulk locality in AdS/CFT and the theory of quantum error correction. We show that if this relation is indeed realized in AdS/CFT, then bulk covariance is broken in the semi-classical limit.

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@article{arxiv.1507.07897,
  title  = {A note on bulk locality and covariance in AdS/CFT},
  author = {Slava Emelyanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.07897},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

clarifications added: 3 new footnotes, new paragraph at the end of sec. II.C and minor changes in the text; typo fixed

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