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Nearly AdS$_2$ holography in quantum CGHS model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-02-19 v3

Abstract

In light of recent developments in nearly AdS2_2 holography, we revisit the semi-classical version of two-dimensional dilaton gravity proposed by Callan, Giddings, Harvey, and Strominger (CGHS) in the early 90's. In distinction to the classical model, the quantum corrected CGHS model has an AdS2_2 vacuum with a constant dilaton. By turning on a non-normalizable mode of the Liouville field, i.e. the conformal mode of the 2d2d gravity, the explicit breaking of the scale invariance renders the AdS2_2 vacuum nearly AdS2_2. As a consequence, there emerges an effective one-dimensional Schwarzian-type theory of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone mode - the boundary graviton - on the boundary of the nearly AdS2_2 space. We go beyond the linear order perturbation in non-normalizable fluctuations of the Liouville field and work up to the second order. As a main result of our analysis, we clarify the role of the boundary graviton in the holographic framework and show the Virasoro/Schwarzian correspondence, namely that the 2d2d bulk Virasoro constraints are equivalent to the graviton equation of motion of the 1d1d boundary theory, at least, on the SL(2,R)SL(2,R) invariant vacuum.

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@article{arxiv.1910.12542,
  title  = {Nearly AdS$_2$ holography in quantum CGHS model},
  author = {Shinji Hirano and Yang Lei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.12542},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

25 pages, an error corrected and reference added

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