Vacuum energy is non-positive for (2 + 1)-dimensional holographic CFTs

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/4/045009zbMath1338.83133arXiv1508.04460OpenAlexW3101637507MaRDI QIDQ2807416

Toby Wiseman, Andrew Hickling

Publication date: 20 May 2016

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04460

zbMATH Keywords

black holesgeneral relativityCFTvacuum energyAdS-CFT

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Black holes (83C57) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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