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Learning geometries beyond asymptotic AdS

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-09-03 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present a data-driven method for holographic bulk reconstruction that works even when the spacetime is not asymptotically AdS. Given the data of boundary Green functions within a finite frequency window, we iteratively adjust a bulk metric with a finite radial cutoff until its holographic Green functions reproduce the boundary data. Based on the holographic Wilsonian renormalization group for the Klein-Gordon equation in an undetermined curve space, we construct a radial flow equation and transform it into a Neural ODE, which is an infinite-depth neural network for modeling continuous dynamics. Assuming the double-trace coupling hh in the Wilsonian action is real, we demonstrate that the Neural ODE can effectively learn the metrics with AdS, Lifshitz, and hyperscaling violated asymptotics. In particular, we apply the algorithm to the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model which slightly deviates from the conformal limit. In the hyperparameter space spanned by the rescaled temperature Tˉ\bar{T} and the radial cutoff ϵ\epsilon, we identify a critical curve along which the learned metric is close to AdS2_2 black hole with finite cutoff. We derive an approximate analytical expression for this curve, from which an effective bulk dual of the SYK coupling vv is established. Our work provides a promising way for using machine learning to depict the novel bulk geometry dual to the non-conformal boundary systems in the real world.

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@article{arxiv.2508.05808,
  title  = {Learning geometries beyond asymptotic AdS},
  author = {Cheng Ran and Shao-Feng Wu and Zhuo-Yu Xian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.05808},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

28 pages, 10 figures, typos corrected

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