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Holography with Null Boundaries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-07-01 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

One of the key issues in holography is going beyond AdS\mathrm{AdS} and defining quantum gravity in spacetimes with a null boundary. Recent examples of this type involve linear dilaton asymptotics and are related to the TTT \overline{T} deformation. We present a holographic correspondence derived from string theory, which is an example of a kind of celestial holography. The holographic definition is a spacetime non-commutative open string theory supported on D1-D5 branes together with fundamental strings. The gravity solutions interpolate between AdS3\mathrm{AdS}_3 metrics and six-dimensional metrics. Radiation can escape to null infinity, which makes both the encoding of quantum information in the boundary and the dynamics of black holes quite different from AdS\mathrm{AdS} spacetimes.

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@article{arxiv.2506.20765,
  title  = {Holography with Null Boundaries},
  author = {Christian Ferko and Savdeep Sethi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.20765},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

43 pages; v2: references and minor clarification added

R2 v1 2026-07-01T03:33:36.775Z