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arXiv:1507.07897

A note on bulk locality and covariance in AdS/CFT

Slava Emelyanov

Published Jul 28, 2015• 1 citation
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Abstract

This paper studies a recently proposed relation between the emergence of bulk locality in AdS/CFT and the theory of quantum error correction. We show that if this relation is indeed realized in AdS/CFT, then bulk covariance is broken in the semi-classical limit.
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1507.07897

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