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Non-Fefferman-Graham asymptotics and holographic renormalization in New Massive Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-05-08 v2

Abstract

The asymptotic behavior of new massive gravity (NMG) is analyzed for all values of the mass parameter satisfying the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound. The traditional Fefferman-Graham expansion fails to capture the dynamics of NMG, and new terms in the asymptotic expansion are needed to include the massive graviton modes. New boundary conditions are discovered for a range of values 1<2m2l2<1-1<2m^2l^2<1 at which non-Einstein modes decay more slowly than the Brown-Henneaux boundary conditions. The holographically renormalized stress tensor is computed for these modes, and the relevant counterterms are identified up to unphysical ambiguities.

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@article{arxiv.1301.1347,
  title  = {Non-Fefferman-Graham asymptotics and holographic renormalization in New Massive Gravity},
  author = {Colin Cunliff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.1347},
  year   = {2013}
}