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Holographic Correlators in a Flow to a Fixed Point

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

Using holographic renormalization, we study correlation functions throughout a renormalization group flow between two-dimensional superconformal field theories. The ultraviolet theory is an N=(4,4) CFT which can be thought of as a symmetric product of U(2) super WZW models. It is perturbed by a relevant operator which preserves one-quarter supersymmetry and drives the theory to an infrared fixed point. We compute correlators of the stress-energy tensor and of the relevant operators dual to supergravity scalars. Using the former, we put together Zamolodchikov's C function, and contrast it with proposals for a holographic C function. In passing, we address and resolve two puzzles also found in the case of five-dimensional bulk supergravity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0209191,
  title  = {Holographic Correlators in a Flow to a Fixed Point},
  author = {Marcus Berg and Henning Samtleben},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0209191},
  year   = {2009}
}

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LaTeX2e, 48 pages, 4 figures

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