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Holography on Non-Orientable Surfaces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-07 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider the holographic computation of two dimensional conformal field theory partition functions on non-orientable surfaces. We classify the three dimensional geometries that give bulk saddle point contributions to the partition function, and find that there are fewer saddles than in the orientable case. For example, for the Klein bottle there is a single smooth saddle and a single additional saddle with an orbifold singularity. We argue that one must generally include singular bulk saddle points in order to reproduce the CFT results. We also discuss loop corrections to these partition functions for the Klein bottle.

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@article{arxiv.1603.04426,
  title  = {Holography on Non-Orientable Surfaces},
  author = {Alexander Maloney and Simon F. Ross},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.04426},
  year   = {2016}
}

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26 pages, 1 figure

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