Bounds on the local energy density of holographic CFTs from bulk geometry

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/22/225003zbMATH Open1351.83035arXiv1605.00007OpenAlexW2346003970MaRDI QIDQ5298232FDOQ5298232

Authors: Sebastian Fischetti, Andrew Hickling, Toby Wiseman 

Publication date: 14 December 2016

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

Abstract: The stress tensor is a basic local operator in any field theory; in the context of AdS/CFT, it is the operator which is dual to the bulk geometry itself. Here we exploit this feature by using the bulk geometry to place constraints on the local energy density in static states of holographic $(2+1)$-dimensional CFTs living on a closed (but otherwise generally curved) spatial geometry. We allow for the presence of a marginal scalar deformation, dual to a massless scalar field in the bulk. For certain vacuum states in which the bulk geometry is well-behaved at zero temperature, we find that the bulk equations of motion imply that the local energy density integrated over specific boundary domains is negative. In the absence of scalar deformations, we use the inverse mean curvature flow to show that if the CFT spatial geometry has spherical topology but non-constant curvature, the local energy density must be positive somewhere. This result extends to other topologies, but only for certain types of vacuum; in particular, for a generic toroidal boundary, the vacuum's bulk dual must be the zero-temperature limit of a toroidal black hole.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.00007

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesAdS/CFT\((2+1)\)-dimensionalspherical topologytoroidal black holeCFT energy density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57) Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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