Depth perception in holography
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- According to the holographic principle, information about our world can be encoded in a projection of one less dimension, similar to a hologram. This principle has culminated in the discovery of the AdS/CFT duality, an explicit example of holography where, miraculously, the lower-dimensional projection is a theory of familiar local fields. But how is the extra dimension encoded in this holographic theory? The equivalence between a gravitational theory and a lower-dimensional theory implies a radical reorganization of the degrees of freedom: the fundamental building blocks of a gravitational theory are likely extended, not point-like, objects. In this thesis, I describe progress towards formulating both sides of the duality in terms of extended probes -- objects which naturally possess the ability of "holographic depth perception.".
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | McCandlish, Samuel Russel |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics. |
| Primary advisor | Silverstein, Eva, 1970- |
| Thesis advisor | Silverstein, Eva, 1970- |
| Thesis advisor | Hartnoll, Sean |
| Thesis advisor | Kachru, Shamit, 1970- |
| Advisor | Hartnoll, Sean |
| Advisor | Kachru, Shamit, 1970- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Samuel Russel McCandlish. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2017 by Samuel Russel McCandlish
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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