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Euclidean gravity and holography

Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

E-mail Address: harlow@mit.edu

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Edgar Shaghoulian

David Rittenhouse Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, 209 S.33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

E-mail Address: eshag@sas.upenn.edu

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271821410054Cited by:3 (Source: Crossref)

This article is part of the issue:

SPECIAL ISSUE: Selected Essays from the Annual Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation 2021
Editor: D. V. Ahluwalia

Abstract

We discuss a recent proposal that the Euclidean gravity approach to quantum gravity is correct if and only if the theory is holographic, providing several examples and general arguments to support the conjecture. This provides a natural mechanism for the low-energy gravitational effective field theory to access a host of deep ultraviolet properties, like the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy of black holes, the unitarity of black hole evaporation, and the lack of exact global symmetries.

This essay is awarded fifth prize in the 2021 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation.

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