Positive Mass from Holographic Causality

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2002-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0204198v2

Phys.Rev.Lett. 89 (2002) 121301

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

Latex, 10 pages, 1 figure. Statement of theorem and proof modified. Typos corrected

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.121301

For n+1 dimensional asymptotically AdS spacetimes which have holographic duals on their n dimensional conformal boundaries, we show that the imposition of causality on the boundary theory is sufficient to prove positivity of mass for the spacetime when n > 2, without the assumption of any local energy condition. We make crucial use of a generalization of the time-delay formula calculated in gr-qc/9404019, which relates the time delay of a bulk null curve with respect to a boundary null geodesic to the Ashtekar-Magnon mass of the spacetime. We also discuss holographic causality for the negative mass AdS soliton and its implications for the positive energy conjecture of Horowitz and Myers.

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