Building up quantum spacetimes with BCFT Legos
Abstract
Is it possible to read off the quantum gravity dual of a CFT directly from its operator algebra? In this essay, we present a step-by-step recipe synthesizing results and techniques from conformal bootstrap, topological symmetries, tensor networks, a novel symmetry-preserving real-space renormalization algorithm devised originally in lattice models, and the asymptotics of quantum symbols, thereby providing an answer in the affirmative. Quantum 2D Liouville theory serves as a simple and explicit example, illustrating how the quantum gravitational path integral can be built up from local pieces of BCFT correlation functions, which we call the ``BCFT Legos''. The constructive map between gravity and CFT naturally and explicitly bridges local geometrical data, algebraic structures, and quantum entanglement, as envisaged by the motto.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.00877,
title = {Building up quantum spacetimes with BCFT Legos},
author = {Ling-Yan Hung and Yikun Jiang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.00877},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
11 pages, 6 figures, expanded version of essay written for the Gravity Research Foundation 2024 Awards for Essays on Gravitation