A note on bulk locality and covariance in AdS/CFT

Abstract

This paper studies a recently proposed relation between the emergence of bulk locality in AdS/CFT and the theory of quantum error correction. We show that if this relation is indeed realized in AdS/CFT, then bulk covariance is broken in the semi-classical limit.

clarifications added: 3 new footnotes, new paragraph at the end of sec. II.C and minor changes in the text; typo fixed

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