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Holo-ween

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-12-30 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We argue that given holographic CFT1_1 in some state with a dual spacetime geometry M, and given some other holographic CFT2_2, we can find states of CFT2_2 whose dual geometries closely approximate arbitrarily large causal patches of M, provided that CFT1_1 and CFT2_2 can be non-trivially coupled at an interface. Our CFT2_2 states are "dressed up as" states of CFT1_1: they are obtained from the original CFT1_1 state by a regularized quench operator defined using a Euclidean path-integral with an interface CFT1_1 CFT2_2 and CFT1_1. 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.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-06-23T16:36:03.490Z