March 13, 2020

Answered by: Jonathan Gorard

Are your models consistent with the holographic principle/AdS-CFT correspondence?

They certainly seem to be! Indeed, as discussed in the answer about implication for the black hole information paradox, the structure of the multiway causal graph seems to imply a form of the holographic principle in a very natural way.
Recall that the multiway causal graph encodes both the structure of the (purely quantum mechanical) multiway evolution graph, as well as the structures of the (purely relativistic) causal graphs corresponding to each branch of multiway evolution. Therefore, one can imagine “walling off” a certain bundle of causal edges in the multiway causal graph corresponding to some particular branch of multiway evolution, such that all of the causal edges inside the boundary of the wall correspond to edges in a purely relativistic causal graph (i.e. they designate causal relations between events in spacetime), whilst all of the causal edges intersecting the boundary of the wall correspond to edges in a purely quantum mechanical multiway graph (i.e. they designate causal relations between events in branchtime). As such, one immediately obtains a duality between the bulk gravitational theory on the interior of the wall, and the boundary quantum mechanical theory on the surface of the wall, just as in AdS/CFT.