Collision of gravitational shock waves in AdS and holography

Abstract:

We study numerically the formation of marginally closed trapped surfaces as the result of the collision of two shock gravitational waves in AdS in various dimensions (D 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8). In all cases a critical value of the impact parameter is found above which no trapped surface of the type sought exists. We obtain a very simple scaling between the critical impact parameter and the energy of the incoming waves. The holographic implications of our results are discussed in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.

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2011

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scopus