# Strings 2022

Jul 18 – 23, 2022
University of Vienna
Europe/Vienna timezone

## Cauchy Slice Holography

Not scheduled
20m
Audimax (University of Vienna)

### Audimax

#### University of Vienna

Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria

### Speaker

Goncalo Araujo-Regado (University of Cambridge)

### Description

We show how to construct an explicit map between boundary states and quantum gravity states in AdS/CFT via a specific field theory path integral on a bulk Cauchy slice, rather than on the asymptotic boundary. The field theory is constructed from the boundary CFT via an irrelevant deformation, which is the analogue of the well-known $T\bar{T}$ operator in two boundary dimensions. Our construction generalises to quantum gravity theories with any Hamiltonian constraint, provided the usual algebra closure with the momentum constraints holds. This approach provides a manifestly background-independent definition of the quantum gravity theory in terms of the deformed field theory.

### Primary author

Goncalo Araujo-Regado (University of Cambridge)

### Co-authors

Mr Rifath Khan (University of Cambridge) Aron Wall (University of Cambridge (DAMTP))

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