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Every citation links to the primary paper and separates what the work establishes from what Adjacency Theory proposes on top of it.

Active / theoreticalarXiv:1005.3035

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.

Active / theoreticalarXiv:1306.0533

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.

Active / theoreticalarXiv:1608.05687

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

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