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Coset Construction for Duals of Non-relativistic CFTs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-01-15 v2

Abstract

We systematically analyze backgrounds that are holographic duals to non-relativistic CFTs, by constructing them as cosets of the Schrodinger group and variants thereof. These cosets G/H are generically non-reductive and we discuss in generality how a metric on such spaces can be determined from a non-degenerate H-invariant symmetric two-form. Applying this to the d=2 Schrodinger algebra, we reproduce the five-dimensional backgrounds proposed as duals of fermions at unitarity, and under reasonable physical assumptions, we demonstrate uniqueness of this background. The proposed gravity dual of the Lifshitz fixed-point, for which Galileian symmetry is absent, also fits into this organizational scheme and uniqueness of this background can also be shown.

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@article{arxiv.0903.4245,
  title  = {Coset Construction for Duals of Non-relativistic CFTs},
  author = {Sakura Schafer-Nameki and Masahito Yamazaki and Kentaroh Yoshida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.4245},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

12 pages; v2: typos corrected, references added