Subregion Complementarity in AdS/CFT
Abstract
We examine the bulk reconstruction in the AdS/CFT correspondence. We demonstrate that the subregion duality fails to hold, highlighting discrepancies between operators in causal wedge reconstruction and those in global reconstruction at the leading order in the large limit. We argue the invalidity of the entanglement wedge reconstruction based on the holographic quantum error correction code, attributing it to non-perturbative finite effects or quantum gravity effects due to the trans-Planckian modes near the horizon. Nevertheless, we propose the subregion complementarity, illustrating that different CFT operators can describe a bulk subregion. While we expect that this complementarity is valid outside the horizon in general eternal black holes, it is inapplicable for single-sided black holes where a semi-classical description at the stretched horizon is absent.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2309.04231,
title = {Subregion Complementarity in AdS/CFT},
author = {Sotaro Sugishita and Seiji Terashima},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.04231},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
42 pages, 5 figure, v2: includes corrections to discussion on subregion complementarity, minor corrections, v3: clarification added