No-Boundary State for Klein Space
Abstract
Analytic continuation from signature Minkowski to signature Klein space has emerged as a useful tool for the understanding of scattering amplitudes and flat space holography. Under this continuation, past and future null infinity merge into a single boundary () which is the product of a null line with a signature torus. The Minkowskian -matrix continues to a Kleinian -vector which in turn may be represented by a Poincar\'e-invariant vacuum state in the Hilbert space built on . contains all information about in a novel, repackaged form. We give an explicit construction of in a Lorentz/conformal basis for a free massless scalar. separates into two halves which are the asymptotic null boundaries of the regions timelike and spacelike separated from the origin. is shown to be a maximally entangled state in the product of the Hilbert spaces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2410.08853,
title = {No-Boundary State for Klein Space},
author = {Walker Melton and Atul Sharma and Andrew Strominger and Tianli Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.08853},
year = {2024}
}
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12 pages, 1 figure