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13 - On the Empirical Consequences of the AdS/CFT Duality

from Part III - Issues of Interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2020

Nick Huggett
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Chicago
Keizo Matsubara
Affiliation:
Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Christian Wüthrich
Affiliation:
Université de Genève
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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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Beyond Spacetime
The Foundations of Quantum Gravity
, pp. 284 - 303
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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