Colliding AdS gravitational shock waves in various dimensions and holography

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2010)021zbMATH Open1290.83012arXiv1004.2609MaRDI QIDQ2016754FDOQ2016754

Álvaro Dueñas-Vidal, M. A. Vázquez-Mozo

Publication date: 20 June 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The formation of marginally trapped surfaces in the off-center collision of two shock waves on AdS_D (with D=4,5,6,7 and 8) is studied numerically. We focus on the case when the two waves collide with nonvanishing impact parameter while the sources are located at the same value of the holographic coordinate. In all cases a critical value of the impact parameter is found above which no trapped surface is formed. The numerical results show the existence of a simple scaling relation between the critical impact parameter and the energy of the colliding waves. Using the isometries of AdS_D we relate the solutions obtained to the ones describing the collision of two waves with a purely holographic impact parameter. This provides a gravitational dual for the head-on collision of two lumps of energy of unequal size.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2609

zbMATH Keywords

black holesclassical theories of gravityAdS-CFT correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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• Collisions of particles in locally AdS spacetimes. I. Local description and global examples

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