Research
Primary sources, read honestly
Every citation links to the primary paper and separates what the work establishes from what Adjacency Theory proposes on top of it.
Building up spacetime with quantum entanglement
Mark Van Raamsdonk · 2010
What the paper establishes
In holographic settings, reducing boundary entanglement is associated with disconnecting the bulk geometry — geometric connectedness tracks a quantum-information quantity.
How Adjacency Theory uses it
As the motivating precedent for treating relational quantities, not coordinates, as the primitive. It is not used as evidence for any Adjacency Theory claim.
Cool horizons for entangled black holes (ER = EPR)
Juan Maldacena & Leonard Susskind · 2013
What the paper establishes
A conjectured correspondence between entangled pairs and Einstein-Rosen bridges: relation and geometric connection as dual descriptions of a single situation.
How Adjacency Theory uses it
As the sharpest existing statement of the intuition behind RDH. The bridges involved are not traversable, and we never present them as shortcuts.
Traversable Wormholes via a Double Trace Deformation
Ping Gao, Daniel Jafferis & Aron Wall · 2016 / 2017
What the paper establishes
A traversable-wormhole construction in a holographic model, using a boundary coupling and negative average null energy, without violating causality.
How Adjacency Theory uses it
As the template for how a 'shortcut' must be paid for: an explicit coupling, an explicit energy requirement, and no causal gain over the enabling channel.
Established background
- No-communication theorem
Why entanglement cannot transmit information, in any protocol.
- Ryu–Takayanagi entanglement entropy
Entanglement entropy as the area of a minimal bulk surface.
- Averaged null energy condition
The constraint any traversable geometry has to negotiate.
Method and reproducibility
- Null models in network science
Why a shuffled comparison is mandatory before claiming structure.
- Metric space axioms
The properties any candidate distance construction must satisfy.