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The World as a Hologram

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According to 't Hooft the combination of quantum mechanics and gravity requires the three dimensional world to be an image of data that can be stored on a two dimensional projection much like a holographic image. The two dimensional description only requires one discrete degree of freedom per Planck area and yet it is rich enough to describe all three dimensional phenomena. After outlining 't Hooft's proposal I give a preliminary informal description of how it may be implemented. One finds a basic requirement that particles must grow in size as their momenta are increased far above the Planck scale. The consequences for high energy particle collisions are described. The phenomena of particle growth with momentum was previously discussed in the context of string theory and was related to information spreading near black hole horizons. The considerations of this paper indicate that the effect is much more rapid at all but the earliest times. In fact the rate of spreading is found to saturate the bound from causality. Finally we consider string theory as a possible realization of 't Hooft's idea. The light front lattice string model of Klebanov and Susskind is reviewed and its similarities with the holographic theory are demonstrated. The agreement between the two requires unproven but plausible assumptions about the nonperturbative behavior of string theory. Very similar ideas to those in this paper have been long held by Charles Thorn.

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Holograms and Standard Models

hep-th · 2026-07-06 · conditional · novelty 7.0

DSSYK∞ at infinite temperature duals in the flat-space limit to the 't Hooft model, and holographic entropy at TB=∞ forbids quantum corrections to the vacuum energy.

Symmetry-Resolved Entanglement Entropy from Heat Kernels

hep-th · 2025-11-03 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

An improved heat kernel framework with phase-factor reconstruction computes symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy for charged systems and derives a cMERA flow equation that agrees with CFT and holographic calculations.

The mini-Page Curve in Cosmology

hep-th · 2026-07-09 · conditional · novelty 6.5

In 2D centaur geometries the entropy difference of a modular-conjugate Hawking-pair probe traces an inverse mini-Page curve that bottoms at τ≈β/8, marking when information begins to leave the cosmological horizon.

CFT Dual for Timelike Geodesic in Lorentzian dS

hep-th · 2026-06-27 · conditional · novelty 6.0

Timelike geodesic-integrated Wightman functions in dS are dual to bulk-operator correlators with a linear combination of an OPE block and its Casimir partner.

Holographic Dual of PT Symmetric BCFT

hep-th · 2026-06-17 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Holographic dual of PT-symmetric BCFT via imaginary scalar on EOW brane shows spontaneous PT breaking and enhanced entanglement entropy growth in quenched state.

Pure states for subregions in gravity and their entanglement entropy

hep-th · 2026-06-02 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

A construction assigns pure states to subregions in quantum gravity via partially frozen path integrals and gives a holographic prescription for their entanglement entropy that satisfies consistency conditions and recovers known formulas.

Wasserstein Space of Quantum Chaos

hep-th · 2026-05-20 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Effective dimension of Wasserstein space for quantum energy eigenstates reduces with increasing chaos, capturing Lyapunov exponents and indicating scar states via optimal transport geometry.

3d QFT IR divergences as UV divergences in 4d Holographic Cosmology

hep-th · 2026-05-15 · conditional · novelty 6.0

Two-loop 2- and 3-point functions of a massive 3d toy QFT with generalized conformal structure are log-finite in the deep IR, suggesting nonperturbative IR finiteness and, holographically, no cosmological singularity.

Geometric noise spectrum in interferometers

hep-th · 2026-01-25 · conditional · novelty 6.0

The noise spectrum an interferometer would see from quantum spacetime jitter is computed for vacuum, thermal, squeezed, and scalar-backreaction states; all are Planck-suppressed.

No boundary density matrix in elliptic de Sitter dS/$\mathbb{Z}_2$

hep-th · 2025-11-30 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

The Euclidean path integral on elliptic de Sitter defines a no-boundary density matrix whose entropies reduce to vertex operator correlators on non-orientable surfaces, with a one-dimensional global Hilbert space but nontrivial observer Fock spaces.

Searching for emergent spacetime in spin glasses

hep-th · 2025-10-23 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Spectral functions of SYK, p-spin, and SU(M) Heisenberg models show exponential tails in spin-glass phases and quasiparticle families in spin-liquid phases, with a proof that exponential decay blocks detection of bulk causal structure.

Timelike Liouville theory and AdS$_3$ gravity at finite cutoff

hep-th · 2025-08-05 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Proposes that AdS3 gravity at finite cutoff is dual to a CFT2 coupled to timelike Liouville theory deformed by a marginal operator, with checks via semiclassical partition functions and EOM matching.

Radiation in Fluid/Gravity and the Flat Limit

hep-th · 2025-08-02 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Establishes a holographic link between bulk gravitational radiation and dissipative corrections plus entropy production in boundary fluids, then constructs Carrollian analogues and celestial observables in the flat limit.

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    Timelike geodesic-integrated Wightman functions in dS are dual to bulk-operator correlators with a linear combination of an OPE block and its Casimir partner.

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  • Wasserstein Space of Quantum Chaos hep-th · 2026-05-20 · unverdicted · none · ref 4 · internal anchor

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  • Carrollian Perspective on Celestial Holography hep-th · 2022-02-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 2 · internal anchor

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