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Wedge Holography in Flat Space and Celestial Holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-01-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this paper, we study codimension two holography in flat spacetimes, based on the idea of the wedge holography. We propose that a region in a d+1d+1 dimensional flat spacetime surrounded by two end of the world-branes, which are given by dd dimensional hyperbolic spaces, is dual to a conformal field theory (CFT) on a d1d-1 dimensional sphere. Similarly, we also propose that a d+1d+1 dimensional region in the flat spacetime bounded by two dd dimensional de Sitter spaces is holographically dual to a CFT on a d1d-1 dimensional sphere. Our calculations of the partition function, holographic entanglement entropy and two point functions, support these duality relations and imply that such CFTs are non-unitary. Finally, we glue these two dualities along null surfaces to realize a codimension two holography for a full Minkowski spacetime and discuss a possible connection to the celestial holography.

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@article{arxiv.2207.06735,
  title  = {Wedge Holography in Flat Space and Celestial Holography},
  author = {Naoki Ogawa and Tadashi Takayanagi and Takashi Tsuda and Takahiro Waki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.06735},
  year   = {2023}
}

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42 pages, 12 figures

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