Holographic reconstruction of asymptotically flat spacetimes
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 . 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 and those of another massless field living in three-dimensional null boundary . The idea is to first reconstruct the bulk metric 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 to reconstruct the deep interior of the spacetime using only correlation functions localized near .
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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