ar X iv : h ep - t h / 00 08 25 3 v 2 1 1 Se p 20 00 3 D Gravity , Point Particles and Liouville Theory
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This paper elaborates on the bulk/boundary relation between negative cosmological constant 3D gravity and Liouville field theory (LFT). We develop an interpretation of LFT non-normalizable states in terms of particles moving in the bulk. This interpretation is suggested by the fact that “heavy” vertex operators of LFT create conical singularities and thus should correspond to point particles moving inside AdS. We confirm this expectation by comparing the (semi-classical approximation to the) LFT two-point function with the (appropriately regularized) gravity action evaluated on the corresponding metric.
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