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Lifshitz holography: The whole shebang

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-22 v1

Abstract

We provide a general algorithm for constructing the holographic dictionary for any asymptotically locally Lifshitz background, with or without hyperscaling violation, and for any values of the dynamical exponents zz and θ\theta, as well as the vector hyperscaling violating exponent, that are compatible with the null energy condition. The analysis is carried out for a very general bottom up model of gravity coupled to a massive vector field and a dilaton with arbitrary scalar couplings. The solution of the radial Hamilton-Jacobi equation is obtained recursively in the form of a graded expansion in eigenfunctions of two commuting operators, which are the appropriate generalization of the dilatation operator for non scale invariant and Lorentz violating boundary conditions. The Fefferman-Graham expansions, the sources and 1-point functions of the dual operators, the Ward identities, as well as the local counterterms required for holographic renormalization all follow from this asymptotic solution of the radial Hamilton-Jacobi equation. We also find a family of exact backgrounds with z>1z>1 and θ>0\theta>0 corresponding to a marginal deformation shifting the vector hyperscaling violating parameter and we present an example where the conformal anomaly contains the only z=2z=2 conformal invariant in d=2d=2 with four spatial derivatives.

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@article{arxiv.1408.0795,
  title  = {Lifshitz holography: The whole shebang},
  author = {Wissam Chemissany and Ioannis Papadimitriou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.0795},
  year   = {2015}
}

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83 pages, 1 figure