Flat-space scattering and bulk locality in the AdS-CFT correspondence
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-9530 (United States)
Description
The large radius limit in the AdS-CFT correspondence is expected to provide a holographic derivation of flat-space scattering amplitudes. This suggests that questions of locality in the bulk should be addressed in terms of properties of the S matrix and their translation into the conformal field theory. There are, however, subtleties in this translation related to generic growth of amplitudes near the boundary of anti-de Sitter space. Flat space amplitudes are recovered after a delicate projection of CFT correlators onto normal-mode frequencies of AdS. Once such amplitudes are obtained from the CFT, possible criteria for approximate bulk locality include bounds on growth of amplitudes at high energies and reproduction of semiclassical gravitational scattering at long distances. (c) 2000 The American Physical Society
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 61
- Journal Issue
- 10
- Journal Page Range
- p. 106008-106008.11
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 32060105
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; GAUGE INVARIANCE; HOLOGRAPHY; S MATRIX; SUPERSTRING MODELS; THEORETICAL DATA
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPOSITE MODELS; DATA; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; INFORMATION; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRICES; NUMERICAL DATA; PARTICLE MODELS; QUARK MODEL; STRING MODELS
- Proposed descriptors and Free-text terms
- conformal field theory; S-matrix theory