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Renormalization group flows in AdS and the bootstrap program

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-07-31 v2

Abstract

We study correlation functions of the bulk stress tensor and boundary operators in Quantum Field Theories (QFT) in Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space. In particular, we derive new sum rules from the two-point function of the stress tensor and its three-point function with two boundary operators. In AdS2, this leads to a bootstrap setup that involves the central charge of the UV limit of the bulk QFT and may allow us to follow a Renormalization Group (RG) flow non-perturbatively by continuously varying the AdS radius. Along the way, we establish the convergence properties of the newly discovered local block decomposition of the three-point function.

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@article{arxiv.2305.11209,
  title  = {Renormalization group flows in AdS and the bootstrap program},
  author = {Marco Meineri and Joao Penedones and Taro Spirig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11209},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

43+27 pages, 10 figures, a few typos removed, a couple of references added, matches published version

R2 v1 2026-06-28T10:38:34.403Z