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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2011)130
Keywords
Models of Quantum Gravity; Conformal and W Symmetry; Conformal Field Models in String Theory
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Funding
- World Premier International Research Center Initiative, MEXT, Japan
- Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) [22740153]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22740153] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We prove that every unitary two-dimensional conformal field theory (with no extended chiral algebra, and with c,(c) over tilde > 1) contains a primary operator with dimension Delta(1) that satisfies 0 < Delta(1) < c+(c) over tilde /12 + 0.473695. Translated into gravitational language using the AdS(3)/CFT2 dictionary, our result proves rigorously that the lightest massive excitation in any theory of 3D matter and gravity with cosmological constant Lambda < 0 can be no heavier than 1/(4G(N))+ o(root-Lambda). In the flat-space approximation, this limiting mass is twice that of the lightest BTZ black hole. The derivation applies at finite central charge for the boundary CFT, and does not rely on an asymptotic expansion at large central charge. Neither does our proof rely on any special property of the CFT such as supersymmetry or holomorphic factorization, nor on any bulk interpretation in terms of string theory or semiclassical gravity. Our only assumptions are unitarity and modular invariance of the dual CFT. Our proof demonstrates for the first time that there exists a universal center-of-mass energy beyond which a theory of pure quantum gravity can never consistently be extended.
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