Casimir energy in the gauge/gravity description of Bjorken flow?

K. Kajantie, Jorma Louko, and T. Tahkokallio
Phys. Rev. D 78, 126012 – Published 31 December 2008

Abstract

In the AdS/CFT description of four-dimensional QCD matter undergoing Bjorken expansion, does the holographic energy-momentum tensor contain a Casimir-type contribution that should not be attributed to thermal matter? When the bulk isometry ansatz that yielded such a Casimir term for (1+1)-dimensional boundary matter is generalized to a four-dimensional boundary, we show that a Casimir term does not arise, owing to singularities in the five-dimensional bulk solution. The geometric reasons are traced to a difference between the isometries of AdS3 and AdSd+1 for d3.

  • Received 14 October 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.126012

©2008 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

K. Kajantie1,2,*, Jorma Louko3,†, and T. Tahkokallio1,2,4,‡

  • 1Department of Physics, P.O. Box 64, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
  • 2Helsinki Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 64, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
  • 3School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
  • 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 3P6 Canada

  • *keijo.kajantie@helsinki.fi
  • jorma.louko@nottingham.ac.uk
  • ttahko@uvic.ca

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Vol. 78, Iss. 12 — 15 December 2008

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