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arxiv: 1508.04440 · v1 · pith:DLCWDV36new · submitted 2015-08-18 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc· quant-ph

Holographic dual of a time machine

classification ✦ hep-th gr-qcquant-ph
keywords fieldboundarycausalitydualmachinequantumtheorytime
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We apply the $AdS/CFT$ holography to the simplest possible eternal time machine solution in $AdS_3$ based on two conical defects moving around their center of mass along a circular orbit. Closed timelike curves in this space-time extend all the way to the boundary of $AdS_3$, violating causality of the boundary field theory. By use of the geodesic approximation we address the "grandfather paradox" in the dual $1+1$ dimensional field theory and calculate the two-point retarded Green function. It has a non-trivial analytical structure both at negative and positive times, providing us with an intuition on how an interacting quantum field could behave once causality is broken. In contrast with the previous considerations our calculations reveal the possibility of a consistent and controllable evolution of a quantum system without any need to impose additional consistency constraints.

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