English

4-dimensional spacetimes from 2-dimensional conformal null data

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-02-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In this paper we investigate whether the holographic principle proposed in string theory has a classical counterpart in general relativity theory. We show that there is a partial correspondence: at least in the case of vacuum Petrov type D spacetimes that admit a non-trivial Killing tensor, which encompass all the astrophysical black hole spacetimes, there exists a one to one correspondence between gravity in bulk and a two dimensional classical conformal scalar field on a null boundary.

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@article{arxiv.1511.05700,
  title  = {4-dimensional spacetimes from 2-dimensional conformal null data},
  author = {Rituparno Goswami and George F. R. Ellis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.05700},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

7 pages, 2 Figures, Revtex4, Title changed, To appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity

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