On the Empirical Consequences of the AdS/CFT Duality
History and Philosophy of Physics
2018-10-03 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We provide an analysis of the empirical consequences of the AdS/CFT duality with reference to the application of the duality in a fundamental theory, effective theory and instrumental context. Analysis of the first two contexts is intended to serve as a guide to the potential empirical and ontological status of gauge/gravity dualities as descriptions of actual physics at the Planck scale. The third context is directly connected to the use of AdS/CFT to describe real quark-gluon plasmas. In the latter context, we find that neither of the two duals are confirmed by the empirical data.
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@article{arxiv.1810.00949,
title = {On the Empirical Consequences of the AdS/CFT Duality},
author = {Radin Dardashti and Richard Dawid and Sean Gryb and Karim Thébault},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00949},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
15 pages + abstract, references. Submitted to "Beyond Spacetime" volume