A uniqueness theorem for the adS soliton

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.88.101102arXivhep-th/0108170WikidataQ54531893 ScholiaQ54531893MaRDI QIDQ6467488FDOQ6467488

Authors: Gregory J. Galloway, Sumati Surya, Eric Woolgar 

Publication date: 22 August 2001

Abstract: The stability of physical systems depends on the existence of a state of least energy. In gravity, this is guaranteed by the positive energy theorem. For topological reasons this fails for nonsupersymmetric Kaluza-Klein compactifications, which can decay to arbitrarily negative energy. For related reasons, this also fails for the AdS soliton, a globally static, asymptotically toroidal $Lambda<0$ spacetime with negative mass. Nonetheless, arguing from the AdS/CFT correspondence, Horowitz and Myers (hep-th/9808079) proposed a new positive energy conjecture, which asserts that the AdS soliton is the unique state of least energy in its asymptotic class. We give a new structure theorem for static $Lambda<0$ spacetimes and use it to prove uniqueness of the AdS soliton. Our results offer significant support for the new positive energy conjecture and add to the body of rigorous results inspired by the AdS/CFT correspondence.

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