Holographic principle (I'm looking for a paper that I read)

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The discussion centers on the holographic principle, a concept in string theory and quantum gravity that posits information about a volume of space is encoded on its lower-dimensional boundaries. Key contributors to this theory include Gerard 't Hooft and Leonard Susskind, who emphasized the existence of multiple screens for compact regions rather than a single screen at infinity. The conversation references various papers, including Oeckl's 2008 article on general boundary quantum field theory, and highlights the dimensionality of boundaries in relation to time and space.

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I read a paper a long time ago. And i forgot who wrote it. The author said that information was not encoded on space time but on the boundaries of regions of space time.
there was 3 parts on this boundaries.
a space like part (for the initial conditions) . another one for the "out" state. between them a time like region.
i think that they had the same dimension (2 or 3)
have you an idea? maybe Rovelli?
 
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It was neither him nor Verlinde. I read in the wiki spin foam article that spin networks are boundaries of spin foams. (i was still thinking of Rovelli).
 
Heidi said:
I read a paper a long time ago. And i forgot who wrote it. The author said that information was not encoded on space time but on the boundaries of regions of space time.
there was 3 parts on this boundaries.
a space like part (for the initial conditions) . another one for the "out" state. between them a time like region.
i think that they had the same dimension (2 or 3)
have you an idea? maybe Rovelli?
Reminds me of Leonard Susskind.

The holographic principle is a tenet of string theories and a supposed property of quantum gravity that states that the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on a lower-dimensional boundary to the region—such as a light-like boundary like a gravitational horizon. First proposed by Gerard 't Hooft, it was given a precise string-theory interpretation by Leonard Susskind,[1] who combined his ideas with previous ones of 't Hooft and Charles Thorn.
 
You are right but in the paper i read there was not one screen at infinity for the universe but many screens. one for each compact region.
 
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I think it was an old (2008) article written by Oeckl. General boundary QFT.
I will download it .
 
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Does somebody read this article? I see how it is an extension of the standard quantum theory. But i do not see how to interpret the functions on a time like part of a boundary (the vertical region of the cylinder in the figure)
 
I see now. if take a 4 dimensional cylinder its boundary is 3 dimensional. it may be timelike:1 dimension for time and 2 for space (the screens)
they can wrap finite regions. It is the case with Verlinde screens.
 

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