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Forbidden Landscape from Holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present a class of field configurations that are forbidden in the quantum gravity because of inconsistency in the dual field theory from holography. Scale invariant but non-conformal field theories are impossible in (1+1) dimension, and so should be the corresponding gravity dual. In particular, the "spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking" models and the "ghost condensation" models, which are well-studied in phenomenology literatures, are forbidden in any consistent quantum theories of gravity in (1+2) dimension since they predict such inconsistent field configurations.

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@article{arxiv.0907.0227,
  title  = {Forbidden Landscape from Holography},
  author = {Yu Nakayama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.0227},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4pages, v2: some improvements, reference added

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