Horizon holography

A holographic correspondence between horizon data and space-time physics is investigated. We find similarities with the AdS-CFT correspondence, based on the observation that the optical metric near the horizon describes a Euclidean, asymptotically anti-de Sitter space. This picture emerges for a wide class of static space-times with a nondegenerate horizon, including Schwarzschild black, holes as well is de Sitter space-time. We reveal an asymptotic conformal symmetry at the horizon. We compute the conformal weights and 2-point functions for a scalar perturbation and discuss possible connections with a conformal field theory located on the horizon. We then reconstruct the scalar field and the metric from the data given on the horizon. We show that the solution for the metric in the bulk is completely determined in terms of a specified metric on the horizon. From the general relativity point of view our solutions present a new class of space-time metrics with nonspherical horizons. The horizon entropy associated with these solutions is also discussed.