English

Double-trace operators and one-loop vacuum energy in AdS/CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

We perform a one-loop calculation of the vacuum energy of a tachyon field in anti de-Sitter space with boundary conditions corresponding to the presence of a double-trace operator in the dual field theory. Such an operator can lead to a renormalization group flow between two different conformal field theories related to each other by a Legengre transformation in the large N limit. The calculation of the one-loop vacuum energy enables us to verify the holographic c-theorem one step beyond the classical supergravity approximation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0210093,
  title  = {Double-trace operators and one-loop vacuum energy in AdS/CFT},
  author = {Steven S. Gubser and Indrajit Mitra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0210093},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

18 pages, latex, one figure. v2: reference added, typos corrected

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