Holographic Probes of Anti-de Sitter Spacetimes Export

@article{citeulike:4861002, abstract = {We describe probes of anti-de Sitter spacetimes in terms of conformal field theories on the AdS boundary. Our basic tool is a formula that relates bulk and boundary states -- classical bulk field configurations are dual to expectation values of operators on the boundary. At the quantum level we relate the operator expansions of bulk and boundary fields. Using our methods, we discuss the CFT description of local bulk probes including normalizable wavepackets, fundamental and D-strings, and D-instantons. Radial motions of probes in the bulk spacetime are related to motions in scale on the boundary, demonstrating a scale-radius duality. We discuss the implications of these results for the holographic description of black hole horizons in the boundary field theory.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Balasubramanian, Vijay and Kraus, Per and Lawrence, Albion and Trivedi, Sandip}, citeulike-article-id = {4861002}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9808017}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9808017}, day = {12}, eprint = {hep-th/9808017}, keywords = {anti-de-sitter-space, boundary-states, holography}, month = {Aug}, posted-at = {2009-06-15 19:15:03}, priority = {2}, title = {Holographic Probes of Anti-de Sitter Spacetimes}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9808017}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4861002 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4861002 N2 - We describe probes of anti-de Sitter spacetimes in terms of conformal field theories on the AdS boundary. Our basic tool is a formula that relates bulk and boundary states -- classical bulk field configurations are dual to expectation values of operators on the boundary. At the quantum level we relate the operator expansions of bulk and boundary fields. Using our methods, we discuss the CFT description of local bulk probes including normalizable wavepackets, fundamental and D-strings, and D-instantons. Radial motions of probes in the bulk spacetime are related to motions in scale on the boundary, demonstrating a scale-radius duality. We discuss the implications of these results for the holographic description of black hole horizons in the boundary field theory. TI - Holographic Probes of Anti-de Sitter Spacetimes KW - anti-de-sitter-space KW - boundary-states KW - holography AU - Balasubramanian, Vijay AU - Kraus, Per AU - Lawrence, Albion AU - Trivedi, Sandip PY - 1998/Aug/12/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9808017 ER -