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High Energy Physics - Theory

Title: Building up quantum spacetimes with BCFT Legos

Abstract: Is it possible to read off the quantum gravity dual of a CFT directly from its operator algebra? In this essay, we present a step-by-step recipe synthesizing results and techniques from conformal bootstrap, topological symmetries, tensor networks, a novel symmetry-preserving real-space renormalization algorithm devised originally in lattice models, and the asymptotics of quantum $6j$ symbols, thereby providing an answer in the affirmative. Quantum 2D Liouville theory serves as a simple and explicit example, illustrating how the quantum gravitational path integral can be built up from local pieces of BCFT correlation functions, which we call the ``BCFT Legos''. The constructive map between gravity and CFT naturally and explicitly bridges local geometrical data, algebraic structures, and quantum entanglement, as envisaged by the $\it{It \, from \, Qubit}$ motto.
Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures, expanded version of essay written for the Gravity Research Foundation 2024 Awards for Essays on Gravitation
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:2404.00877 [hep-th]
  (or arXiv:2404.00877v1 [hep-th] for this version)

Submission history

From: Yikun Jiang [view email]
[v1] Mon, 1 Apr 2024 03:14:36 GMT (2975kb,D)

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