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Holography and Renormalization in Lorentzian Signature

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v3

Abstract

De Boer et. al. have found an asymptotic equivalence between the Hamilton-Jacobi equations for supergravity in (d+1)-dimensional asymptotic anti-de Sitter space, and the Callan-Symanzik equations for the dual d-dimensional perturbed conformal field theory. We discuss this correspondence in Lorentzian signature. We construct a gravitational dual of the generating function of correlation functions between initial and final states, in accordance with the construction of Marolf, and find a class of states for which the result has a classical supergravity limit. We show how the data specifying the full set of solutions to the second-order supergravity equations of motion are described in the field theory, despite the first-order nature of the renormalization group equations for the running couplings: one must specify both the couplings and the states, and the latter affects the solutions to the Callan-Symanzik equations.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0606022,
  title  = {Holography and Renormalization in Lorentzian Signature},
  author = {Albion Lawrence and Amit Sever},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0606022},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

45 pages, 2 figures. v2 -- reference added. v3 -- some typos corrected, one correction in section 5.3