# Dimensional Reduction in Quantum Gravity **Domain:** Physics / Quantum Gravity **Doc Type:** Paper Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Gerard 't Hooft]], [[The World as a Hologram]], [[Quantum Foundations]] --- ## Definition “Dimensional Reduction in Quantum Gravity” is Gerard 't Hooft's 1993 paper proposing that quantum gravity may admit a description with fewer degrees of freedom than a conventional volume-based account suggests. ## Corpus Context The paper is one of the foundations of the [[Holographic Principle]] and serves as primary evidence in [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]. ## Key Insight **This node connects its historical or conceptual subject to the corpus without treating analogy as proof of direct influence.** ## See Also [[Gerard 't Hooft]], [[The World as a Hologram]], [[Quantum Foundations]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] - https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9310026