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Introductory examples of AdS/CFT duality
I would like to know, what are the simplest/starting/basic examples that are typically used to introduce students to how AdS/CFT really works? (not the MAGOO paper, as I am not sure it has concrete ...
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About higher spin gauge theory
I'm going to listen to a talk about Vasiliev's higher spin gauge theory. Before that I want to know more about the background.This is an introduction. Could anybody give a more detailed introduction ...
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what does holographic principle from string theory say about the possibilities of wormhole travel?
Is travel through stable macroscopic wormholes between remote points of spacetime going to be possible in a definitive theory of gravity, be it string theory or something beyond it?
Physicists level ...
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The Universe is a Hologram
First my background: no physics, but Ph.D. in math. I was reading this article on Slashdot. It links to this Wikipedia page. The content of the Slashdot article is that some physicists believe the ...
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What are cosmological “firewalls”?
Reading the funny title of this talk, Black Holes and Firewalls, just made me LOL because I have no idea what it is about but a lively imagination :-P (Sorry Raphael Bousso but the title is just too ...
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What is relation between Holographic principle and Hologram?
What is relation between Holographic principle and Hologram?
The holographic principle is a property of quantum gravity and string theories which states that the description of a volume of space can ...
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How does the holographic principle imply nonlocality?
For example in the discussions here and here there are comments by Ron Maimon:
Your complaint about locality would be more serious if holography
didn't show the way--- the CFT in AdS/CFT ...
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What does AdS/CFT have to say about quantum gravity in our world?
The Ads side of the AdS/CFT correspondence is a model of quantum gravity in 5 dimensional antidesitter space. What can it say about quantum gravity in our 4-spacetime dimensions? Or is it just a toy ...
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Information loss in a black hole
How does the Holographic Principle help to establish the fact that all the information is not lost in a black hole?
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Why isn't there heterotic holographic QCD?
I think the question speaks for itself... Top-down holographic QCD, like Sakai-Sugimoto, always involves the Type II string. There are one or two papers on hQCD using the Type 0 string. But I can't ...
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Has the black hole information loss paradox been settled?
This question was triggered by a comment of Peter Shor's (he is a skeptic, it seems.) I thought that the holographic principle and AdS/CFT dealt with that, and was enough for Hawking to give John ...
