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Holographic reconstruction of asymptotically flat spacetimes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-12-07 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We present a "holographic" reconstruction of bulk spacetime geometry using correlation functions of a massless field living at the "future boundary" of the spacetime, namely future null infinity I+\mathscr{I}^+. It is holographic in the sense that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between correlation functions of a massless field in four-dimensional spacetime M\mathcal{M} and those of another massless field living in three-dimensional null boundary I+\mathscr{I}^+. The idea is to first reconstruct the bulk metric gμνg_{\mu\nu} by "inverting" the bulk correlation functions and re-express the latter in terms of boundary correlators via the correspondence. This effectively allows asymptotic observers close to I+\mathscr{I}^+ to reconstruct the deep interior of the spacetime using only correlation functions localized near I+\mathscr{I}^+.

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@article{arxiv.2203.15830,
  title  = {Holographic reconstruction of asymptotically flat spacetimes},
  author = {Erickson Tjoa and Finnian Gray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.15830},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

10 pages, single column; Essay written for the Gravity Research Foundation 2022 Awards for Essays on Gravitation --- Honourable Mention. Submitted to IJMPD for consideration as part of GRF special issue. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2204.13133