16320487
Gödel-type universes and the Landau problem
We point out a close relation between a family of Godel-type solutions of 3+1 general relativity and the Landau problem in and ; in particular, the classical geodesics correspond to Larmor orbits in the Landau problem. We discuss the extent of this relation, by analysing the solutions of the Klein–Gordon equation in these backgrounds. For the case, this relation was independently noticed in hep-th/0306148. Guided by the analogy with the Landau problem, we speculate on the possible holographic description of a single chronologically safe region.
15838992
Killing spectroscopy of closed timelike curves
We analyse the existence of closed timelike curves in spacetimes which possess an isometry. In particular we check which discrete quotients of such spaces lead to closed timelike curves. As a by-product of our analysis, we prove that the notion of existence or non-existence of closed timelike curves is a T-duality invariant notion, whenever the direction along which we apply such transformations is everywhere spacelike. Our formalism is straightforwardly applied to supersymmetric theories. We provide some new examples in the context of D-branes and generalized pp-waves.
56350886
EXTREMAL BLACK HOLES, HOLOGRAPHY AND COARSE GRAINING
I review some of the concepts at the crossroads of gravitational thermodynamics, holography and quantum mechanics. First, the origin of gravitational thermodynamics due to coarse graining of quantum information is exemplified using the half-BPS sector of SYM and its LLM description in type IIB supergravity. The notion of black holes as effective geometries, its relation to the fuzzball programme and some of the puzzles raising for large black holes are discussed. Second, I review recent progress for extremal black holes, both microscopically, discussing a constituent model for stationary extremal non-BPS black holes, and semiclassically, discussing the extremal black hole/CFT conjecture. The latter is examined from the AdS3/CFT2 perspective. Third, I review the importance of the holographic principle to encode nonlocal gravity features allowing us to relate the gravitational physics of local observers with thermodynamics and the role causality plays in these arguments by identifying horizons (screens) as diathermic walls. I speculate with the emergence of an approximate CFT in the deep IR close to any horizon and its relation with an effective dynamical description of the degrees of freedom living on these holographic screens.
119108532
Helical Luttinger Liquids and three dimensional black holes
We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to discuss an equivalence between a helical, strongly coupled Luttinger liquid and a fermion propagating in the background of a topologically charged black hole in three dimensions. The Fermi level is set by the topological charges, thus surmounting difficulties in low dimensions of the standard approach using Coulomb charged black holes. The construction is fully embeddable in string theory, and the microscopic Lagrangian is explicitly known. The retarded Green function at low temperature and energy arises from the geometry very near the black hole horizon, a structure that is universal for all cold, charged liquids with a dual $\mathbb{R}\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}\mathrm{U}(1{)}^{s}$ invariant description in gravity. This explains a subtle relationship between Luttinger physics and the infrared behavior of higher dimensional non-Fermi liquids in the AdS/CFT correspondence.
16140829
Typicality versus thermality: an analytic distinction
In systems with a large degeneracy of states such as black holes, one expects that the average value of probe correlation functions will be well approximated by the thermal ensemble. To understand how correlation functions in individual microstates differ from the canonical ensemble average and from each other, we study the variances in correlators. Using general statistical considerations, we show that the variance between microstates will be exponentially suppressed in the entropy. However, by exploiting the analytic properties of correlation functions we argue that these variances are amplified in imaginary time, thereby distinguishing pure states from the thermal density matrix. We demonstrate our general results in specific examples and argue that our results apply to the microstates of black holes.
119287778
Strings vs. spins on the null orbifold
A bstractWe study the null orbifold singularity in 2+1 d flat space higher spin theory as well as string theory. Using the Chern-Simons formulation of 2+1 d Einstein gravity, we first observe that despite the singular nature of this geometry, the eigenvalues of its Chern-Simons holonomy are trivial. Next, we construct a resolution of the singularity in higher spin theory: a Kundt spacetime with vanishing scalar curvature invariants. We also point out that the UV divergences previously observed in the 2-to-2 tachyon tree level string amplitude on the null orbifold do not arise in the α′ → ∞ limit. We find all the divergences of the amplitude and demonstrate that the ones remaining in the tensionless limit are physical IR-type divergences. We conclude with a discussion on the meaning and limitations of higher spin (cosmological) singularity resolution and its potential connection to string theory.
119881917
Linearization of relativistic nonlinear wave equations
Some linearization theorems for relativistic nonlinear wave equations are formulated and proved. Examples are discussed and the physical meaning of such a linearization is sketched. Finally, some remarks concerning gauge theories are presented.
116957296
Higher derivative expansions and non-locality, with applications to gravity and the stability of flat space
122340661
Wave operators and analytic solutions for systems of non-linear Klein-Gordon equations and of non-linear Schrödinger equations
We consider, in a 1+3 space time, arbitrary (finite) systems of nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations (respectively Schrödinger equations) with an arbitrary local and analytic non-linearity in the unknown and its first and second order space-time (respectively first order space) derivatives, having no constant or linear terms. No restriction is given on the frequency sign of the initial data. In the case of non-linear Klein-Gordon equations all masses are supposed to be different from zero.We prove, for such systems, that the wave operator (fromt=∞ tot=0) exists on a domain of small entire test functions of exponential type and that the analytic Cauchy problem, in ℝ+×ℝ3, has a unique solution for each initial condition (att=0) being in the image of the wave operator. The decay properties of such solutions are discussed in detail.
116894284
The cauchy problem for non-linear Klein-Gordon equations
We consider in ℝn+1,n≧2, the non-linear Klein-Gordon equation. We prove for such an equation that there is a neighbourhood of zero in a Hilbert space of initial conditions for which the Cauchy problem has global solutions and on which there is asymptotic completeness. The inverse of the wave operator linearizes the non-linear equation. If, moreover, the equation is manifestly Poincaré covariant then the non-linear representation of the Poincaré Lie algebra, associated with the non-linear Klein-Gordon equation is integrated to a non-linear representation of the Poincaré group on an invariant neighbourhood of zero in the Hilbert space. This representation is linearized by the inverse of the wave operator. The Hilbert space is, in both cases, the closure of the space of the differentiable vectors for the linear representation of the Poincaré group, associated with the Klein-Gordon equation, with respect to a norm defined by the representation of the enveloping algebra.
121784848
On global solutions of the Maxwell-Dirac equations
We prove, for the Maxwell-Dirac equations in 1+3 dimensions, that modified wave operators exist on a domain of small entire test functions of exponential type and that the Cauchy problem, inR+×R3, has a unique solution for each initial condition (att=0) which is in the image of the wave operator. The modification of the wave operator, which eliminates infrared divergences, is given by approximate solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, for a relativistic electron in an electromagnetic potential. The modified wave operator linearizes the Maxwell-Dirac equations to their linear part.