Published July 21, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Projective coordinates and projective space limit

  • 1. Urawa University, Saitama 336-0974 (Japan)
  • 2. Theory Division, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801 (Japan)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Toho University, Funabashi, 274-8510 (Japan)

Description

The 'projective lightcone limit' has been proposed as an alternative holographic dual of an AdS space. It is a new type of group contraction for a coset G/H preserving the isometry group G but changing H. In contrast to the usual group contraction, which changes G preserving the spacetime dimension, it reduces the dimensions of the spacetime on which G is realized. The obtained space is a projective space on which the isometry is realized as a linear fractional transformation. We generalize and apply this limiting procedure to the 'Hopf reduction' and obtain (n-1)-dimensional complex projective space from (2n-1)-dimensional sphere preserving SU(n) symmetry

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.02.004

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.02.004;
arXiv
arXiv:0707.0326v2;
PII
S0550-3213(08)00105-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B
Journal Volume
798
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 310-322
ISSN
0550-3213
CODEN
NUPBBO

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
40061329
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ANTI DE SITTER SPACE; COORDINATES; GROUP THEORY; HOLOGRAPHY; LIGHT CONE; SPHERES; SU GROUPS; TRANSFORMATIONS
Descriptors DEC
LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MATHEMATICS; SPACE; SPACE-TIME; SYMMETRY GROUPS

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Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.