Gravitational interpretation of the Hitchin equations

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2007.02.009zbMATH Open1125.53050arXivmath/0605590OpenAlexW2137935456MaRDI QIDQ998002FDOQ998002

Gábor Etesi

Publication date: 10 August 2007

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By referring to theorems of Donaldson and Hitchin, we exhibit a rigorous AdS/CFT-type correspondence between classical 2+1 dimensional vacuum general relativity theory on S x R and SO(3) Hitchin theory (regarded as a classical conformal field theory) on the spacelike past boundary S, a compact, oriented Riemann surface of genus greater than one. Within this framework we can interpret the 2+1 dimensional vacuum Einstein equation as a decoupled ``dual version of the 2 dimensional SO(3) Hitchin equations. More precisely, we prove that if over S with a fixed conformal class a real solution of the SO(3) Hitchin equations with induced flat SO(2,1) connection is given, then there exists a certain cohomology class of non-isometric, singular, flat Lorentzian metrics on S x R whose Levi--Civita connections are precisely the lifts of this induced flat connection and the conformal class induced by this cohomology class on S agrees with the fixed one. Conversely, given a singular, flat Lorentzian metric on S x R the restriction of its Levi--Civita connection gives rise to a real solution of the SO(3) Hitchin equations on S with respect to the conformal class induced by the corresponding cohomology class of the Lorentzian metric.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0605590

zbMATH Keywords

AdS/CFT correspondence\(2+1\)-dimensional general relativityHitchin equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E99) Differential complexes (58J10)

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