General relativity as a two-dimensional CFT

DOI10.1142/S0218271815440241MaRDI QIDQ3464454zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Tim Adamo

Publication date 27 January 2016

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05679

zbMATH Keywords

general relativityscattering amplitudestwo-dimensional conformal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: The tree-level scattering amplitudes of general relativity encode the full non-linearity of the Einstein field equations. Yet remarkably compact expressions for these amplitudes have been found which seem unrelated to a perturbative expansion of the Einstein-Hilbert action. This suggests an entirely different description of GR which makes this on-shell simplicity manifest. Taking our cue from the tree-level amplitudes, we discuss how such a description can be found. The result is a formulation of GR in terms of a solvable two-dimensional CFT, with the Einstein equations emerging as quantum consistency conditions.

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