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Holographic correlation functions in Critical Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-12-06 v2

Abstract

We compute the holographic stress tensor and the logarithmic energy-momentum tensor of Einstein-Weyl gravity at the critical point. This computation is carried out performing a holographic expansion in a bulk action supplemented by the Gauss-Bonnet term with a fixed coupling. The renormalization scheme defined by the addition of this topological term has the remarkable feature that all Einstein modes are identically cancelled both from the action and its variation. Thus, what remains comes from a nonvanishing Bach tensor, which accounts for non-Einstein modes associated to logarithmic terms which appear in the expansion of the metric. In particular, we compute the holographic 11-point functions for a generic boundary geometric source.

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@article{arxiv.1709.01174,
  title  = {Holographic correlation functions in Critical Gravity},
  author = {Giorgos Anastasiou and Rodrigo Olea},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.01174},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

21 pages, no figures,extended discussion on two-point functions, final version to appear in JHEP

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