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The classical gravity approximation is often employed in AdS/CFT to study the dual field theory, as it allows for many computations. A drawback is however the generic presence of singularities in classical gravity, which limits the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-28 Norbert Bodendorfer , Andreas Schäfer , John Schliemann

A definition of quantum singularity for the case of static spacetimes has recently been extended to conformally static spacetimes. Here the theory behind quantum singularities in conformally static spacetimes is reviewed, and then applied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-05 T. M. Helliwell , D. A. Konkowski

We conjecture that, in certain cases, quantum dynamics is consistent in the presence of closed timelike curves. We consider time dependent orbifolds of three dimensional Minkowski space describing, in the limit of large AdS radius, BTZ…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Lorenzo Cornalba , Miguel S. Costa

Although there is general agreement that a removal of classical gravitational singularities is not only a crucial conceptual test of any approach to quantum gravity but also a prerequisite for any fundamental theory, the precise criteria…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Bojowald

We study holographic volume complexity for various families of holographic cosmologies with Kasner-like singularities, in particular with $AdS$, hyperscaling violating and Lifshitz asymptotics. We find through extensive numerical studies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-25 K. Narayan , Hitesh K. Saini , Gopal Yadav

Motivated by the holographic principle, within the context of the AdS/CFT Correspondence in the large t'Hooft limit, we investigate how the geometry of certain highly symmetric bulk spacetimes can be recovered given information of physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-06 Samuel Bilson

We study the nature of a family of curvature singularities which are precisely the timelike cousins of the spacelike singularities studied by Belinski, Khalatnikov, and Lifshitz (BKL). We show that the approach to the singularity can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Edgar Shaghoulian , Huajia Wang

It was recently shown that the metric functions which describe a spherically symmetric space-time with vanishing radial pressure can be explicitly integrated. We investigate the nakedness and curvature strength of the shell-focusing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomohiro Harada , Ken-ichi Nakao , Hideo Iguchi

In this paper we use the AdS/CFT correspondence to refine and then establish a set of old conjectures about symmetries in quantum gravity. We first show that any global symmetry, discrete or continuous, in a bulk quantum gravity theory with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-07 Daniel Harlow , Hirosi Ooguri

It has been proposed that quantum complexity is dual to the volume of the extremal surface, the action of the Wheeler-DeWitt patch, and the spacetime volume of the patch. Recently, a generalized volume-complexity observable was formulated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Xuanhua Wang , Ran Li , Jin Wang

My research work can be classified into two parts namely, (i) Cosmological phenomena with varying speed of light and (ii) Gravitational collapse and black holes. We have investigated several cosmological phenomena when velocity of light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ujjal Debnath

We hereby show that the Kasner spacetime turns out to be singularity-free in Einstein's conformal gravity in vacuum or in presence of matter. Such a statement is based on the regularity of the curvature invariants and on the geodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-24 Leonardo Modesto , Hui-Yu Zhu , Jun-Yan Zhang

After a brief review of the standard definition and analysis of classical singularities in general relativistic spacetimes, and of quantum singularities in static spacetimes with timelike classical singularities, an extension of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-16 Deborah A. Konkowski , Thomas M. Helliwell

Necessary conditions are proposed for the admissibility of singular classical solutions with 3+1-dimensional Poincare invariance to five-dimensional gravity coupled to scalars. Finite temperature considerations and examples from AdS/CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven S. Gubser

We study five dimensional(5D) spherically symmetric self-similar perfect fluid space-time with adiabatic equation of state, considering all the families of future directed non-spacelike geodesics. The space-time admits globally strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sanjay B. Sarwe , R. V. Saraykar

Quantum computational complexity estimates the difficulty of constructing quantum states from elementary operations, a problem of prime importance for quantum computation. Surprisingly, this quantity can also serve to study a completely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-02 Shira Chapman , Giuseppe Policastro

Semi-local quantum critical behaviour in $D-1$ spacetime dimensions can be holographically described by metrics that are conformal to $AdS_2\times\mathbb{R}^{D-2}$, with the conformal factor characterised by a parameter $\eta$. We analyse…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Aristomenis Donos , Jerome P. Gauntlett , Christiana Pantelidou

We consider a free complex massive scalar on the quotient spacetime AdS$_3/\mathbb{Z}$, which has the isometry group SO(2,2) rather than its universal cover. This problem is of interest as a special example of QFT on a spacetime with closed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-20 Walker Melton , Andrew Strominger , Tianli Wang

The gravitational collapse of a thick cylindrical shell of dust matter is investigated. It is found that a spacetime singularity forms on the symmetry axis and that it is necessarily naked, i.e., observable in principle. We propose a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ken-ichi Nakao , Yasunari Kurita , Yoshiyuki Morisawa , Tomohiro Harada

Flatness -- the absence of spacetime curvature -- is a well-understood property of macroscopic, classical spacetimes in general relativity. The same cannot be said about the concepts of curvature and flatness in nonperturbative quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 J. Brunekreef , R. Loll