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Left-Right Asymmetric Holographic RG Flow with Gravitational Chern-Simons Term

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-20 v2

Abstract

We consider the holographic renormalization group (RG) flow in three dimensional gravity with the gravitational Chern-Simons term coupled to some scalar fields. We apply the canonical approach to this higher derivative case and employ the Hamilton-Jacobi formalism to analyze the flow equations of two dimensional field theory. Especially we obtain flow equations of Weyl and gravitational anomalies, and derive cc-functions for left and right moving modes. Both of them are monotonically non-increasing along the flow, and the difference between them is determined by the coefficient of the gravitational Chern-Simons term. This is completely consistent with the Zamolodchikov's cc-theorem for parity-violating two-dimensional quantum field theories.

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@article{arxiv.0906.1255,
  title  = {Left-Right Asymmetric Holographic RG Flow with Gravitational Chern-Simons Term},
  author = {Kyosuke Hotta and Yoshifumi Hyakutake and Takahiro Kubota and Takahiro Nishinaka and Hiroaki Tanida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.1255},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

14 pages, no figure, a few references added