Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2000-02-18
Phys.Lett. B479 (2000) 291-298
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Latex, 14 pages; one reference modified, minor misprints corrected
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(00)00339-7
Asymptotically anti-de Sitter space-times in pure gravity with negative cosmological constant are described, in all space-time dimensions greater than two, by classical degrees of freedom on the conformal boundary at space-like infinity. Their effective boundary action has a conformal anomaly for even dimensions and is conformally invariant for odd ones. These degrees of freedom are encoded in traceless tensor fields in the Fefferman-Graham asymptotic metric for any choice of conformally flat boundary and generate all Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes in anti-de Sitter space-time. We argue that these fields describe components of an energy-momentum tensor of a boundary theory and show explicitly how this is realized in 2+1 dimensions. There, the Fefferman-Graham fields reduce to the generators of the Virasoro algebra and give the mass and the angular momentum of the BTZ black holes. Their local expression is the Liouville field in a general curved background.
Bautier Karin
Englert Francois
Rooman Marianne
Spindel Ph
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