Published March 21, 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Duality in linearized gravity and holography

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Patras, GR-26500 Patras (Greece)

Description

We consider spherical gravitational perturbations of AdS4 spacetime satisfying general boundary conditions at spatial infinity. Using the holographic renormalization method, we compute the energy-momentum tensor and show that it can always be cast in the form of a Cotton tensor for a dual boundary metric. In particular, axial and polar perturbations obeying the same boundary conditions for the effective Schroedinger wavefunctions exhibit an energy-momentum/Cotton tensor duality at conformal infinity. We demonstrate explicitly that this is holographic manifestation of the electric/magnetic duality of linearized gravity in the bulk, which simply exchanges axial with polar perturbations of AdS4 spacetime. We note that this particular realization of gravitational duality is also valid for perturbations near flat and dS4 spacetime, depending on the value of a cosmological constant.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/26/6/065013

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/26/6/065013;
PII
S0264-9381(09)01580-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
26
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
[18 p.]
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41106056
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; DUALITY; ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR; GRAVITATION; HOLOGRAPHY; METRICS; PERTURBATION THEORY; RENORMALIZATION; SPACE-TIME; SPHERICAL CONFIGURATION; WAVE FUNCTIONS
Descriptors DEC
CONFIGURATION; FUNCTIONS; TENSORS