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Irrelevant deformations and the holographic Callan-Symanzik equation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-28 v1

Abstract

We discuss the systematics of obtaining the Callan-Symanzik equation within the framework of the gauge/gravity dualities. We present a completely general formula which in particular takes into account the new holographic renormalization results of arXiv:1102.2239. Non-trivial beta functions are obtained from new logarithmic terms in the radial expansion of the fields. The appearance of multi-trace counterterms is also discussed in detail and we show that mixing between single- and multi-trace operators leads to very specific non-linearities in the Callan-Symanzik equation. Additionally, we compute the conformal anomaly for a scalar three-point function in a CFT.

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@article{arxiv.1105.5396,
  title  = {Irrelevant deformations and the holographic Callan-Symanzik equation},
  author = {Balt C. van Rees},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.5396},
  year   = {2015}
}

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40 pages