algebraic-qft

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Witten's no-boundary-as-universal-vacuum conjecture is a third, separate strand from the Curiel/Ferreiro-Cavallaro semiclassical-gravity cluster

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-20 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-gravity, background-independence, algebraic-qft
CLPW's 'gravitational dressing to an observer's worldline' is a crossed product of a Type III von Neumann algebra with its modular automorphism group, yielding Type II

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-17 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-gravity, von-neumann-algebras, algebraic-qft
Vinck & De Haro (2026) argue no existing philosophical definition of background-independence captures Witten's claim for the CLPW algebra

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-17 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-gravity, background-independence, algebraic-qft
Vinck & De Haro (2026) redefine 'background-independent algebra' as representation-independence rather than dynamical spacetime

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-17 · physics, philosophy-of-physics, quantum-gravity, background-independence, algebraic-qft
On Algebraic Background-Independence (Vinck & De Haro, 2026)

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