Strings in homogeneous gravitational waves and null holography

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2002/08/048zbMATH Open1226.83019arXivhep-th/0204004OpenAlexW3104349911WikidataQ57726785 ScholiaQ57726785MaRDI QIDQ648852FDOQ648852

Authors: Elias Kiritsis, Boris Pioline 

Publication date: 29 November 2011

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Homogeneous gravitational wave backgrounds arise as infinite momentum limits of many geometries with a well-understood holographic description. General global aspects of these geometries are discussed. Using exact CFT techniques, strings in pp-wave backgrounds supported by a Neveu-Schwarz flux are quantized. As in Euclidean $Ad{S}_3$, spectral flow and associated long strings are shown to be crucial in obtaining a complete spectrum. Holography is investigated using conformally flat coordinates analogous to those of the Poincar'e patch in AdS. It is argued that the holographic direction is the light-cone coordinate $u$, and that the holographic degrees of freedom live on a codimension-one screen at fixed $u$. The usual conformal symmetry on the boundary is replaced by a representation of a Heisenberg-type algebra $H_{D}imes{H}_D$, hinting at a new class of field theories realizing this symmetry. A sample holographic computation of 2 and 3-point functions is provided and Ward identities are derived. A complementary screen at fixed $v$ is argued to be necessary in order to encode the vacuum structure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0204004

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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