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AdS$_3$ gravity and the complex SYK models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-05-18 v2

Abstract

We provide a non conformal generalization of the Comp\`ere-Song-Strominger (CSS) boundary conditions for AdS3_3 gravity that breaks the u^(1)\widehat u(1) Kac-Moody-Virasoro symmetry to two u(1)u(1)s. The holographic dual specified by the new boundary conditions can be understood as an irrelevant deformation of a warped conformal field theory (WCFT). Upon consistent reduction to two dimensions, AdS3_3 gravity results in a deformed Jackiw-Teitelboim dilaton gravity model coupled to a Maxwell field. We show that near extremality the boundary conditions inherited from generalized CSS boundary conditions in three dimensions give rise to an effective action exhibiting the same symmetry breaking pattern as the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models. Besides the Schwarzian term reflecting the breaking of conformal symmetry, the effective action contains an additional term that captures the breaking of the u^(1)\widehat u(1) Kac-Moody symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2011.10001,
  title  = {AdS$_3$ gravity and the complex SYK models},
  author = {Pankaj Chaturvedi and Ioannis Papadimitriou and Wei Song and Boyang Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.10001},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

49 pages, 1 figure; v2 minor corrections and additions. Version to appear in JHEP

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