Holographic probes of anti{endash}de Sitter spacetimes
- Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)
- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 (United States)
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 500, Batavia, Illinois 60510 (United States)
We describe probes of anti{endash}de Sitter spacetimes in terms of conformal field theories on the AdS boundary. Our basic tool is a formula that relates bulk and boundary states{emdash}classical bulk field configurations are dual to expectation values of operators on the boundary. At the quantum level we relate the operator expansions of bulk and boundary fields. Using our methods, we discuss the CFT description of local bulk probes including normalizable wave packets, fundamental and D-strings, and D-instantons. Radial motions of probes in the bulk spacetime are related to motions in scale on the boundary, demonstrating a scale-radius duality. We discuss the implications of these results for the holographic description of black hole horizons in the boundary field theory. {copyright} {ital 1999} {ital The American Physical Society}
- OSTI ID:
- 337594
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, D, Journal Name: Physical Review, D Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 59; ISSN 0556-2821; ISSN PRVDAQ
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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