Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: Holographic theories with a local gravitational dual have a number of striking features. Here I argue that many of these features are controlled by the Eguchi-Kawai mechanism, which is proposed to be a hallmark of such holographic theories. Higher-spin holographic duality is presented as a failure of the Eguchi-Kawai mechanism, and its restoration illustrates the deformation of higher-spin theory into a proper string theory with a local gravitational limit. AdS/CFT is used to provide a calculable extension of the Eguchi-Kawai mechanism to field theories on curved manifolds and thereby introduce “topological volume independence.” Finally, I discuss implications for a general understanding of the extensivity of the Bekenstein-Hawking-Wald entropy.
Source: Journal of High Energy Physics
Author: Edgar Shaghoulian
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2551906638