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New bulk cone singularities in Vaidya-like spacetimes from large $c$ conformal blocks

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-12-02 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Bulk cone singularities are singularities in boundary two-point functions at points separated by a null geodesic in the bulk, but not in the boundary. In this work, we describe a new type of bulk cone singularities in a family of Vaidya-like spacetimes that are labeled by the radius r+r_+ of the resulting black hole. We find a sharp transition in the causal structure within this family of spacetimes at r+=lr_+=l, the AdS length. In particular, there are bulk cone singularities that do not exist in the r+>lr_+>l case, but appear for r+<lr_+<l. In the case of r+<lr_+<l where such singularities exist, we are able to reproduce the singularities in a CFT2_2 calculation using large cc conformal blocks.

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@article{arxiv.2411.19924,
  title  = {New bulk cone singularities in Vaidya-like spacetimes from large $c$ conformal blocks},
  author = {Henry Leung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.19924},
  year   = {2024}
}