On Penrose inequality in holography

Abstract

The recent holographic deduction of Penrose inequality only assumes null energy condition while the weak or dominant energy condition is required in usual geometric proof. This paper makes a step toward filling up gap between these two approaches. For planar/spherically symmetrically asymptotically Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter (AdS) black holes, we give a purely geometric proof for Penrose inequality by assuming the null energy condition. We also point out that two naive generalizations of charged Penrose inequality are not generally true and propose two new candidates. When the spacetime is asymptotically AdS but not Schwarzschild-AdS, the total mass is defined according to holographic renormalization and depends on scheme of quantization. In this case, the holographic argument implies that the Penrose inequality should still be valid but this paper use concrete example to show that whether the Penrose inequality holds or not will depend on what kind of quantization scheme we employ.