# 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]]
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## 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