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Consider the penrose diagram for anti de sitter spacetime. It looks like the picture at the bottom of this wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_de_Sitter_space
but sandwiched down I guess.
Anyway, the bit I've just been reading claims that \mathcal{I} (null and spacelike) infinity would be the vertical line on the right hand side bordering the red and black regions in that diagram.
We know that the red bit is our Einstein static universe and the green bit is the physical AdS spacetime - what I want to know is why \mathcal{I^+}, \mathcal{I^-} aren't the diagonal lines on the boundary between the green and red regions as they usually are for penrose diagrams?
Hopefully my question makes sense - I was struggling to find a Penrose diagram of AdS and this was the best I could do!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti_de_Sitter_space
but sandwiched down I guess.
Anyway, the bit I've just been reading claims that \mathcal{I} (null and spacelike) infinity would be the vertical line on the right hand side bordering the red and black regions in that diagram.
We know that the red bit is our Einstein static universe and the green bit is the physical AdS spacetime - what I want to know is why \mathcal{I^+}, \mathcal{I^-} aren't the diagonal lines on the boundary between the green and red regions as they usually are for penrose diagrams?
Hopefully my question makes sense - I was struggling to find a Penrose diagram of AdS and this was the best I could do!