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Holography in General Space-times

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We provide a background-independent formulation of the holographic principle. It permits the construction of embedded hypersurfaces (screens) on which the entire bulk information can be stored at a density of no more than one bit per Planck area. Screens are constructed explicitly for AdS, Minkowski, and de Sitter spaces with and without black holes, and for cosmological solutions. The properties of screens provide clues about the character of a manifestly holographic theory.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9906022,
  title  = {Holography in General Space-times},
  author = {Raphael Bousso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9906022},
  year   = {2009}
}

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30 pages, 8 figures. v2: references added

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