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A note on gravity-scalar fluctuations in holographic RG flow geometries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We study five-dimensional gravity models with non-vanishing background scalar fields which are dual to non-conformal boundary field theories. We develop a procedure to decouple the graviton fluctuations from the scalar ones and apply it to the simplest case of one scalar field. The quadratic action for the decoupled scalar fluctuations has a very simple form and can be used to compute two-point functions. We perform this computation for the two examples of background RG flow recently considered by DeWolfe and Freedman and find physically reasonable results.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0003116,
  title  = {A note on gravity-scalar fluctuations in holographic RG flow geometries},
  author = {G. Arutyunov and S. Frolov and S. Theisen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0003116},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, latex, no figures