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Does the existence of dualities impliesimply a more fundamental structure?

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I was wondering if the existence of some kind of a duality in physics should always imply animplies the existence of some underlying more fundamental structure/concept.?

Let me give a few example from history:

wave particle duality----> existence of quantum particle

  1. Wave-particle duality$~\Rightarrow~$ Existence of quantum particle.

  2. Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics $\&$ Schrodinger's wave formulation of QM $~\Rightarrow~$ Existence of Dirac formulation of QM.

  3. Magnetic field $\&$ electric field $~\Rightarrow~$ Existence of an electromagnetic theory.

matrix and wave formulations of QM ----> existence of Dirac formulationSimilarly, can one conclude that

magnetic field and electric field ---> existence electromagnetic field

  1. for example, from AdS/CFT correspondence,

  2. or more generally, because there is an holographic equivalence between quantum gravity in $D+1$ dimensions, and QFT in $D$ dimensions,

Can one conclude that for example AdS/CFT or because there is an equivalence between quantum gravity in D+1 dimensions and QFT in D dimensions then there must be a more fundamental underlying structure that incorporate both sides of the correspondence?

I was wondering if the existence some kind of a duality in physics should always imply an existence of some underlying more fundamental structure/concept. Let me give a few example from history:

wave particle duality----> existence of quantum particle

matrix and wave formulations of QM ----> existence of Dirac formulation

magnetic field and electric field ---> existence electromagnetic field

Can one conclude that for example AdS/CFT or because there is an equivalence between quantum gravity in D+1 dimensions and QFT in D dimensions then there must be a more fundamental structure that incorporate both?

I was wondering if the existence of some kind of duality in physics always implies the existence of some underlying more fundamental structure/concept?

Let me give a few example from history:

  1. Wave-particle duality$~\Rightarrow~$ Existence of quantum particle.

  2. Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics $\&$ Schrodinger's wave formulation of QM $~\Rightarrow~$ Existence of Dirac formulation of QM.

  3. Magnetic field $\&$ electric field $~\Rightarrow~$ Existence of an electromagnetic theory.

Similarly, can one conclude that

  1. for example, from AdS/CFT correspondence,

  2. or more generally, because there is an holographic equivalence between quantum gravity in $D+1$ dimensions, and QFT in $D$ dimensions,

then there must be a more fundamental underlying structure that incorporate both sides of the correspondence?

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Does existence of dualities implies more fundamental structure?

I was wondering if the existence some kind of a duality in physics should always imply an existence of some underlying more fundamental structure/concept. Let me give a few example from history:

wave particle duality----> existence of quantum particle

matrix and wave formulations of QM ----> existence of Dirac formulation

magnetic field and electric field ---> existence electromagnetic field

Can one conclude that for example AdS/CFT or because there is an equivalence between quantum gravity in D+1 dimensions and QFT in D dimensions then there must be a more fundamental structure that incorporate both?