Sum rule for the ADM mass and tensions in planar AdS spacetimes

Abstract

An asymptotically planar AdS spacetimes is characterized by its ADM mass and tensions. We define an additional ADM charge Q associated with the scaling Killing vector of AdS, show that Q is given by a certain sum over the ADM mass and tensions and that Q vanishes on solutions to the Einstein equation with Λ < 0. The sum rule for the mass and tensions thus established corresponds in an AdS/CFT context to the vanishing of the trace of the boundary stress tensor. We also show that an analogous sum rule holds for local planar sources of stress–energy in AdS. In a simple model consisting of a static, plane symmetric source we find that the perturbative stress–energy tensor must be tracefree.