Restricted Quantum Focusing
High Energy Physics - Theory
2023-10-25 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Quantum Focusing is a powerful conjecture, which plays a key role in the current proofs of many well-known quantum gravity theorems, including various consistency conditions, and causality constraints in AdS/CFT. I conjecture a (weaker) restricted quantum focusing, which I argue is sufficient to derive all known essential implications of quantum focusing. Subject to a technical assumption, I prove this conjecture on brane-world semiclassical gravity theories which are holographically dual to Einstein gravity in a higher dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2212.03881,
title = {Restricted Quantum Focusing},
author = {Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.03881},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 figures