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A multi-boundary AdS orbifold and DLCQ holography: a universal holographic description of extremal black hole horizons

Vijay Balasubramanian1, Asad Naqvi1,2 and Joan Simón1,3

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We examine a stationary but non-static asymptotically AdS3 spacetime with two causally connected conformal boundaries, each of which is a ``null cylinder'', namely a cylinder with a null direction identified. This spacetime arises from three different perspectives: (i) as a non-singular, causally regular orbifold of global AdS3 by boosts, (ii) as a Penrose-like limit focusing on the horizon of extremal BTZ black holes, and (iii) as an S1 fibration over AdS2. Each of these perspectives sheds an interesting light on holography. Examination of the conformal boundary of the spacetime shows that the dual to the space should involve DLCQ limits of the D1-D5 conformal field theory. The Penrose-like limit approach leads to a similar conclusion, by isolating a sector of the complete D1-D5 CFT that describes the physics in the vicinity of the horizon of an extremal black hole. As such this is a holographic description of the universal horizon dynamics of the extremal black holes in AdS3 and also of the four and five dimensional stringy black holes whose states were counted in string theory. The AdS2 perspective draws a connection to a 0+1d quantum mechanical theory. Various dualities lead to a Matrix model description of the spacetime. Many interesting issues that are related to both de Sitter physics and attempts to ``see behind a horizon'' using AdS/CFT arise from (a) the presence of two disconnected components to the boundary, and (b) the analytic structure of bulk physics in the complex coordinate plane.


Keywords

AdS-CFT and dS-CFT Correspondence

Black Holes in String Theory

 

E-print Number: hep-th/0311237

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PACS

04.70.-s Physics of black holes

11.25.Yb M theory

04.62.+v Quantum fields in curved spacetime

11.25.Hf Conformal field theory, algebraic structures

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 08 (August 2004)

Received 27 May 2004, accepted for publication 10 August 2004

Published 7 September 2004



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