The gravitational exclusion principle and null states in anti-de Sitter space

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/19/195012zbMATH Open1226.83046arXiv1107.5098OpenAlexW3100445051MaRDI QIDQ3096489FDOQ3096489

Authors: Alejandra Castro, Thomas E. Hartman, Alexander Maloney 

Publication date: 11 November 2011

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

Abstract: The holographic principle implies a vast reduction in the number of degrees of freedom of quantum gravity. This idea can be made precise in AdS_3, where the the stringy or gravitational exclusion principle asserts that certain perturbative excitations are not present in the exact quantum spectrum. We show that this effect is visible directly in the bulk gravity theory: the norm of the offending linearized state is zero or negative. When the norm is negative, the theory is signaling its own breakdown as an effective field theory; this provides a perturbative bulk explanation for the stringy exclusion principle. When the norm vanishes the bulk state is null rather than physical. This implies that certain non-trivial diffeomorphisms must be regarded as gauge symmetries rather than spectrum-generating elements of the asymptotic symmetry group. This leads to subtle effects in the computation of one-loop determinants for Einstein gravity, higher spin theories and topologically massive gravity in AdS_3. In particular, heat kernel methods do not capture the correct spectrum of a theory with null states.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5098

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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