Non-Lorentzian chaos and cosmological holography

Arjun Bagchi, Shankhadeep Chakrabortty, Daniel Grumiller, Bharathkumar Radhakrishnan, Max Riegler, Aditya Sinha
2021 Physical Review D  
We study chaos in non-Lorentzian field theories, specifically Galilean and Carrollian conformal field theories in two dimensions. In a large central charge limit, we find that the Lyapunov exponent saturates the bound on chaos, conjectured originally for relativistic field theories. We recover the same Lyapunov exponent holographically by a shock-wave calculation in three-dimensional flat space cosmologies, providing further evidence for flat space holography.
doi:10.1103/physrevd.104.l101901 fatcat:42kj4ocfubdinfjjxn7ogl4nae