Does boundary quantum mechanics imply quantum mechanics in the bulk?

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2018)151zbMATH Open1388.81675arXiv1801.08101OpenAlexW3106456612WikidataQ130051519 ScholiaQ130051519MaRDI QIDQ1750985FDOQ1750985

Authors: Daniel Kabat, Gilad Lifschytz 

Publication date: 23 May 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Perturbative bulk reconstruction in AdS/CFT starts by representing a free bulk field $ph{i}^{(0)}$ as a smeared operator in the CFT. A series of $1/N$ corrections must be added to $ph{i}^{(0)}$ to represent an interacting bulk field $phi$. These corrections have been determined in the literature from several points of view. Here we develop a new perspective. We show that correlation functions involving $ph{i}^{(0)}$ suffer from ambiguities due to analytic continuation. As a result $ph{i}^{(0)}$ fails to be a well-defined linear operator in the CFT. This means bulk reconstruction can be understood as a procedure for building up well-defined operators in the CFT which thereby singles out the interacting field $phi$. We further propose that the difficulty with defining $ph{i}^{(0)}$ as a linear operator can be re-interpreted as a breakdown of associativity. Presumably $ph{i}^{(0)}$ can only be corrected to become an associative operator in perturbation theory. This suggests that quantum mechanics in the bulk is only valid in perturbation theory around a semiclassical bulk geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08101

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zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondencemodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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