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Holography for Boundary Lifshitz Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-12-02 v2

Abstract

We propose a holographic duality for the boundary Lifshitz field theory (BLFT). Similar to holographic BCFT, holographic BLFT can be consistently defined by imposing either a Neumann boundary condition (NBC) or a conformal boundary condition (CBC) on the end of the world (EOW) brane. We propose gg-functions and derive gg-theorem for these two types of holographic BLFT. On the field theory side, we consider BLFT whose path integral is prescribed to include also paths bouncing off the boundary. The entanglement entropy for an interval for the Lifshitz invariant ground state is computed in the saddle point approximation, and is found to agree precisely with the holographic result in both limits when the interval is very close or very far away from the boundary.

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@article{arxiv.2409.06667,
  title  = {Holography for Boundary Lifshitz Field Theory},
  author = {Chong-Sun Chu and Ignacio Garrido Gonzalez and Himanshu Parihar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.06667},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

25 Pages, 4 figures and refs. added; matches published JHEP version

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