Holographic renormalization of asymptotically flat spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/9/010zbMATH Open1096.83033arXivhep-th/0511096OpenAlexW2093493939WikidataQ62398156 ScholiaQ62398156MaRDI QIDQ5481020FDOQ5481020

Authors: Robert B. Mann, Donald Marolf 

Publication date: 7 August 2006

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

Abstract: A new local, covariant ``counter-term is used to construct a variational principle for asymptotically flat spacetimes in any spacetime dimension $dge4$. The new counter-term makes direct contact with more familiar background subtraction procedures, but is a local algebraic function of the boundary metric and Ricci curvature. The corresponding action satisfies two important properties required for a proper treatment of semi-classical issues and, in particular, to connect with any dual non-gravitational description of asymptotically flat space. These properties are that 1) the action is finite on-shell and 2) asymptotically flat solutions are stationary points under {it all} variations preserving asymptotic flatness; i.e., not just under variations of compact support. Our definition of asymptotic flatness is sufficiently general to allow the magentic part of the Weyl tensor to be of the same order as the electric part and thus, for d=4, to have non-vanishing NUT charge. Definitive results are demonstrated when the boundary is either a cylindrical or a hyperbolic (i.e., de Sitter space) representation of spacelike infinity ($i^0$), and partial results are provided for more general representations of $i^0$. For the cylindrical or hyperbolic representations of $i^0$, similar results are also shown to hold for both a counter-term proportional to the square-root of the boundary Ricci scalar and for a more complicated counter-term suggested previously by Kraus, Larsen, and Siebelink. Finally, we show that such actions lead, via a straightforward computation, to conserved quantities at spacelike infinity which agree with, but are more general than, the usual (e.g., ADM) results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0511096

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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