Boundaries of zero scalar curvature in the AdS/CFT correspondence

DOI10.4310/ATMP.1999.V3.N6.A4zbMATH Open0978.53084arXivhep-th/0003046OpenAlexW1527387124MaRDI QIDQ5938767

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Publication date: 5 August 2001

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Abstract: In hep-th/9910245, Witten and Yau consider the AdS/CFT correspondence in the context of a Riemannian Einstein manifold $M^{n+1}$ of negative Ricci curvature which admits a conformal compactification with conformal boundary $N^n$. They prove that if the conformal class of the boundary contains a metric of positive scalar curvature, then $M$ and $N$ have several desirable properties: (1) $N$ is connected, (2) the $n$th homology of the compactified $M$ vanishes, and (3) the fundamental group of $M$ is "bounded by" that of $N$. Here it is shown that all of these results extend to the case where the conformal class of the boundary contains a metric of nonnegative scalar curvature. (The case of zero scalar curvature is of interest as it is borderline for the stability of the theory.) The proof method used here is different from, and in some sense dual to, that used by Witten and Yau. While their method involves minimizing the co-dimension one brane action on $M$, and requires the machinery of geometric measure theory, the main arguments presented here use only geodesic geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0003046

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