Holo-ween
Abstract
We argue that given holographic CFT in some state with a dual spacetime geometry M, and given some other holographic CFT, we can find states of CFT whose dual geometries closely approximate arbitrarily large causal patches of M, provided that CFT and CFT can be non-trivially coupled at an interface. Our CFT states are "dressed up as" states of CFT: they are obtained from the original CFT state by a regularized quench operator defined using a Euclidean path-integral with an interface CFT CFT and CFT. Our results are consistent with the idea that the precise microscopic degrees of freedom and Hamiltonian of a holographic CFT are only important in fixing the asymptotic behavior of a dual spacetime, while the interior spacetime of a region spacelike separated from a boundary time slice is determined by more universal properties (such as entanglement structure) of the quantum state at this time slice. Our picture requires that low-energy gravitational theories related to CFTs that can be non-trivially coupled at an interface are part of the same non-perturbative theory of quantum gravity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2006.13943,
title = {Holo-ween},
author = {Petar Simidzija and Mark Van Raamsdonk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.13943},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
45 pages, 15 figures. v2: references and figure added. Talk available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHA6oFi3QHo