The gravity dual of boundary causality

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/17/175004MaRDI QIDQ2832397zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Netta Engelhardt, Sebastian Fischetti

Publication date 11 November 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.03944

zbMATH Keywords

AdS/CFTaveraged null energy conditioncausalityquantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: In gauge/gravity duality, points which are not causally related on the boundary cannot be causally related through the bulk; this is the statement of boundary causality. By the Gao-Wald theorem, the averaged null energy condition in the bulk is sufficient to ensure this property. Here we proceed in the converse direction: we derive a necessary as well as sufficient condition for the preservation of boundary causality under perturbative (quantum or stringy) corrections to the bulk. The condition that we find is a (background-dependent) constraint on the amount by which light cones can "open" over all null bulk geodesics. We show that this constraint is weaker than the averaged null energy condition.

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