Holograms of flat space

Jul, 2013
6 pages
Published in:
  • Int.J.Mod.Phys.D 22 (2013) 1342003
  • Published: 2013

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Abstract:
The holographic principle has a concrete realization in the Anti-de Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence. If this principle is a true fact about quantum gravity then it must also hold beyond AdS/CFT. In this paper, we address specifically holographic field theory duals of gravitational theories in asymptotically flat spacetimes. We present some evidence of our recent conjecture that three-dimensional (3d) conformal Chern–Simons gravity (CSG) with flat space boundary conditions is dual to an extremal CFT.
Note:
  • This essay received an honorable mention in the 2013 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation.
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  • gauge/gravity correspondence
  • flat space holography
  • three-dimensional gravity
  • Chern–Simons gravity
  • conformal gravity