On the origin of the holographic principle

Jae-Weon Lee

Published 2011-07-18, updated 2011-08-01Version 2

It was recently suggested that quantum mechanics and gravity are not fundamental but emerge from information loss at causal horizons. On the basis of the formalism the holographic principle is also shown to arise naturally from the loss of information about bulk fields observed by an outside observer. As an application, Witten's prescription is derived.